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

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I

1. Postpatriarchal Future

2. Myth, Phantasy, and Culture

3. Matricide in Theory

4. Oedipus and Monotheism

Part II

5. Oresteian Secrets: Decrypting Metis

6. The Blind Spot of Metis

7. Melanie Klein and the Phantom of Metis

8. Metis in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

9. Who's Afraid of Clytemnestra?

10. Metis's Law

Part III

11. Clytemnestra's Three Daughters

12. The Latent Mother-Daughter

13. Iphigenia Becomes Metis

14. Virginity and Sibling Incest

Conclusion: The Question of Chrysothemis

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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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