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Abstract
While religious texts advocate a conservative vision of woman, commentaries on these texts by exegetes from the Middle Ages to current times, reflect the archaic anxieties aroused by the female body in this light. A veiled face ceased to be te mirror in which the other perceives his own reflection and becomes an expression of the Uncanny in its most terrifying form. Hence the need to link the Uncanny with Medusa's head.