On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis, and the Law of the Mother

Amber Jacobs

September, 2007
Cloth, 240 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14154-3
$46.50 / £27.50

"The importance of this work cannot be overstated. Bold and original, it has the potential to renew the engagement between feminism and psychoanalysis and bring it to a new level." — Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development and The Birth of Pleasure

"Opens up psychoanalysis to feminism and political radicalism by expanding its range of core myths." — Times Higher Education Supplement

"A fascinating re-telling of classic myths" — Kent Page McGroarty, Feminist Review blog

"Amber Jacobs's carefully delineated distinction between the descriptive and the theoretical is as important a contribution to feminist theory as her elaboration of the theoretical reading of matricide and its implications for psychosocial change. The theoretical versus descriptive reading of matricide that Jacobs offers is stunningly intelligent. Jacobs builds her arguments elegantly and with remarkable economy. Because of its exceptionally clarity, her book should be accessible to non-specialists as well as to sophisticated readers." — Elizabeth Weed, director of the Pembroke Center, Brown University

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy
• Literary Criticism and Theory

About the Author

Amber Jacobs is a feminist theorist and writer. She is lecturer in English and critical theory at Sussex University, United Kingdom. Her work is currently concerned with the question of postpatriarchal futures in the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and social theory. She lives in London.

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