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7419370 

Journal Article 

Sex Work is Work: Greek Capitalism and the “Syndrome of Electra,” 1922–2018 

Tzanaki, D; , 

2020 

Springer International Publishing 

Cham 

Back to the ‘30s? 

365-386 

10.1007/978-3-030-41586-0_19 

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-41586-0_19
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This chapter describes how the “common woman,” from the interwar years, and even earlier, has emerged as the embodiment of psychic and somatic disorders in biomedical scientific discourse in Greece. I argue that the “common woman”—and by extension, any individual—who is described as a bearer of such physical and psychic dangers, could never argue for freedom from the sovereign subject or be able to maintain herself by labor because of her psychical condition. Practically, this means that the myth of the psychically other as criminally dangerous is attributed to modern states, who reserve for themselves the right to do whatever is advanced as necessary for the preservation of peace and the security of the populace, while the scientific expert determines what opinions and doctrines are accepted, which life is allowed to assert power over matters of truth, and how to define its proper existence.