Abstract: By focusing on the figure of Medea in the writings of Seneca, Marion Bourbon shows that the question of voluntary servitude can be seen as a rapport with the self, in which it incarnates the resolution of a psychic conflict which has become untenable : Medea chooses the worst because this is the only way to rid herself of a conflict which is tearing her apart. In this sense, Medea’s voluntary servitude sketches out a model for a “politics of the self”.
