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

Columbia University Press (2007)
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By bringing the story of Athena's mother, Metis, to the forefront, Jacobs challenges the primacy of the Oedipus myth in Western culture and psychoanalysis and introduces a bold new theory of matricide and maternal law.

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