The different contributions in Ženske na robu (Women on the edge) all rely on an awareness that despite recent emphasis on gender equality, that equality often remains merely formal. The authors tell stories about women who have been marginalized (lovers, nuns, prisoners, circus artists and travellers) and despite their differences all have in common that they’ve been moving in traditionally male areas.
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We have established in the presented book that the myth which, for thousands of years, is telling us that the aim of love is to unite two incomplete individuals into a complete unit, is actually converting the impulses of love into the wish to die; it does not express the true dynamic of love. The myth that tells us how love and death, eros and tanatos, are willingly merging into each other, how love destroys and leads to a decline, is one of the most mal-interpreted myths in the whole human history because it privileges the relation that grounds in the elimination of the Other.
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A comparison of Virgil's interpretation of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth with Ovid's reveals that the younger author Ovid fully adopts Virgilćs portrayal of Eurydice. Like the woman created by Pygmalion, Eurydice is an invisible object representing the body which Orpheus, who stands on the side of the intellect, needs in order to complete and re-create it with his artist's imagination, thus transcending his own mortality.
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Until recently, the concepts of love and sexuality were regarded as marginal scientific discussions. The shift has occurred in the 20 th an 21th century when they became the subject of analysis within various scientific disciplines. Should we talk about crisis of love and sexuality? Should we talk about love and sexuality as a place of subversion?
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