Amber Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 6533401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amber Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amber |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Primal Scene
In this autobiographical story, the author reflects on early memories of pets, primal scenes, matricide, and infanticide
On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis, and the Law of the Mother
Despite advances in feminism, the "law of the father" remains the dominant model of Western psychological and cultural analysis, and the law of the mother continues to exist as an underdeveloped and marginal concept. In her radical rereading of the Greek myth, Oresteia , Amber Jacobs hopes to rectify the occlusion of the mother and reinforce her role as an active agent in the laws that determine and reinforce our cultural organization. According …
The Potential of Theory: Melanie Klein, Luce Irigaray, and the Mother-Daughter Relationship
Through a close reading of Klein and Irigaray's work on the mother-daughter relation’ ship via the Electra myth, Jacobs diagnoses what she considers a fundamental problem in psychoanalytic and feminist psychoanalytic theory. She shows that neither thinker is able to theorize the mother-daughter relationship on a structural level but is only able to describe its symptoms. Jacobs makes a crucial distinction between description and theory and argues…
The Potential of Theory: Melanie Klein, Luce Irigaray, and the Mother-Daughter Relationship
Towards a structural theory of matricide: Psychoanalysis, the Oresteia and the maternal prohibition
Jacobs focuses on the untheorized status of matricide in psychoanalysis. She argues that, if matricide could be conceptualized in terms of a structuring function, then we could work towards the expansion of the symbolic economy to include a different mode of symbolization from that of the classical Oedipal/castration model. The key question with which she is concerned is whether or not the mother can be theorized within the terms of the underlyin…
The Potential of Theory: Melanie Klein, Luce Irigaray, and the Mother-Daughter Relationship
Through a close reading of Klein and Irigaray's work on the mother-daughter relation’ ship via the Electra myth, Jacobs diagnoses what she considers a fundamental problem in psychoanalytic and feminist psychoanalytic theory. She shows that neither thinker is able to theorize the mother-daughter relationship on a structural level but is only able to describe its symptoms. Jacobs makes a crucial distinction between description and theory and argues…
Towards a structural theory of matricide: Psychoanalysis, the Oresteia and the maternal prohibition
Jacobs focuses on the untheorized status of matricide in psychoanalysis. She argues that, if matricide could be conceptualized in terms of a structuring function, then we could work towards the expansion of the symbolic economy to include a different mode of symbolization from that of the classical Oedipal/castration model. The key question with which she is concerned is whether or not the mother can be theorized within the terms of the underlyin…
Towards a structural theory of matricide: Psychoanalysis, the Oresteia and the maternal prohibition
Jacobs focuses on the untheorized status of matricide in psychoanalysis. She argues that, if matricide could be conceptualized in terms of a structuring function, then we could work towards the expansion of the symbolic economy to include a different mode of symbolization from that of the classical Oedipal/castration model. The key question with which she is concerned is whether or not the mother can be theorized within the terms of the underlyin…
On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis, and the Law of the Mother
Despite advances in feminism, the "law of the father" remains the dominant model of Western psychological and cultural analysis, and the law of the mother continues to exist as an underdeveloped and marginal concept. In her radical rereading of the Greek myth, Oresteia , Amber Jacobs hopes to rectify the occlusion of the mother and reinforce her role as an active agent in the laws that determine and reinforce our cultural organization. According …
The Potential of Theory: Melanie Klein, Luce Irigaray, and the Mother-Daughter Relationship
Through a close reading of Klein and Irigaray's work on the mother-daughter relation’ ship via the Electra myth, Jacobs diagnoses what she considers a fundamental problem in psychoanalytic and feminist psychoanalytic theory. She shows that neither thinker is able to theorize the mother-daughter relationship on a structural level but is only able to describe its symptoms. Jacobs makes a crucial distinction between description and theory and argues…
The Potential of Theory: Melanie Klein, Luce Irigaray, and the Mother-Daughter Relationship
Primal Scene
In this autobiographical story, the author reflects on early memories of pets, primal scenes, matricide, and infanticide
Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Daughter (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Feminism (2 works)