The aim and purpose of this contribution are to show, if not demonstrate, how this woman's destiny, throug the figures attributed in turn to her by the myth, tragedy (in Euripides'play), and finally the psychic (in the stigmatizing form of a gruesome human misery), how this woman in her relentless struggle against her own passivity and depressivity provides an illustration of a novel and highly contemporary figure of the psychopathology of woman's condition and sexuality. I wish in the Euripides 'diposal when he undertook the writing of his Medea in 431 BC, after devoting a quarter of a century earlier another tragedy, the Peliades to the character who visibly haunted him. Then I shall examine against this background the choices that went i...