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This book is a feminist analysis of Greek myth and tragedy that reimagines the structures of Freudian theory. The objective of this analysis is political—by revealing the structures that undergird patriarchal oppression, feminist thinkers can work to transform these symbolic constellations through the work of sabotage, parody, and imagination. Jessica Elbert Decker attempts here to read Freudian theory through a wider lens of Ancient Greek culture, since our contemporary philosophical and social culture has inherited many of its symbolic structures (e.g., patriarchy, binary thinking).
The major argument of the book is that our Western philosophical, social, and symbolic systems are, as they were in the Ancient Greek world, suffused with a set of values that reflect one version of masculinity and androcentrism, and that those values are destructive to human beings as well as the non-human world, including other beings.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Athena Wins the Olympian Throne.- Chapter 2. Origin Stories: War is the Heart of Androcentric Fantasy.- Chapter 3. Hail Hera, Mother of Monsters! Monstrosity as Emblem of Female Sexual Sovereignty.- Chapter 4. The Medusa Complex: Silence the Name of the Mother.- Chapter 5. Aphrodite of the Spangled Mind: Eros and the Death Instincts.- Chapter 6. Don't Call Me Baby: The Athena Complex and Feminine Masochism.- Chapter 7. Lesbian Eros in Three Movements: Sappho, Gretl, and Dora.- Chapter 8. Ariadne's Thread is Umbilical: Woven Together, Growing Untamed.
