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In her radical reading of Aeschylus's 'Oresteia', Amber Jacobs challenges the primacy of 'the law of the father' as the dominant model of psychological and cultural analysis in the Western world. Instead, by bringing the story of Athena's mother, Metis to the forefront she introduces a new theory of matricide and maternal law.Jacobs, Amber is the author of 'On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis, and the Law of the Mother', published 2007 under ISBN 9780231141543 and ISBN 0231141548.
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