The Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has been studied for about three thousand years along the same lines, as would be expected from one of the leading patriarchal foundational narratives of the western imagination: male subject in search of female object to fulfil his emptiness and identity. Although this story originally took part in a generalized climate of mythos and could be seen as a necessary addition and supplement for knowledge generated by logos, it developed very quickly into a piece of evidence for, and an illustration of, a number of essentialist discourses. However, from the beginning of the twentieth century onwards, a number of the organising hierarchies belonging to the main structure of the plot have been questioned regarding their gendered and power orientated construction and indeed have been destablised. Due to the criticism formulated by poststructuralism, the excluded categories forced a new creativity and posed the question, amongst others, what the same myth could signify, when elaborated from a female point of view. Bracha Ettinger formulated a completely original answer to this question.
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