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100 1 0 _aPoezevara, Kévin
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245 0 0 _aThe Omphalos of Delphi. A psychoanalytic contribution to an archaeological hypothesis
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520 _aIn 1900, the archeologist Jane Ellen Harrison formulated a hypothesis about a possible interpretation of the classical representation of the Omphalos of Delphi. The netted fabric in which the Omphalos was draped could have been the remnant of a ritual in which the sacred stone was covered in an aegis decorated by multiple Gorgon heads. Admittedly, Harrison lacked evidence to support her theory, but this article offers to push her hypothesis further using several elements of the psychoanalytic corpus, starting with Freud’s essay Medusa’s Head. Adopting a psychoanalytic point of view will lead me to develop one of Lacan’s statements concerning the fetishistic value of the sacred stone as a symbol of the center of the world. I will then discuss the clinical relevance of this symbol for the study of obsessional neuroses and its specific implication in women’s identification with the phallus.
690 _afeminine
690 _aphallus
690 _aneurosis
690 _afetish
690 _aGorgon
690 _aOmphalos
786 0 _nCliniques méditerranéennes | o  101 | 1 | 2020-02-17 | p. 259-271 | 0762-7491
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-cliniques-mediterraneennes-2020-1-page-259?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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