Primal Scene

ABSTRACT

In this autobiographical story, the author reflects on early memories of pets, primal scenes, matricide, and infanticide.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Jackie Stacey, Catherine Grant, and Gordon Hon for very helpful comments and discussion about this piece.

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Amber Jacobs

Amber Jacobs, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research background is in literature, feminism, psychoanalysis, ancient Greek myth and tragedy, and visual culture. Her monograph, On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis and the Law of the Mother, is an intervention into classical psychoanalysis via structural anthropology and feminist philosophy. She has published articles on psychoanalytic feminism, visual cultures, the mother–daughter relation in cinema, and feminist and queer spectatorship. She is in a film collective and makes short films and writes short stories.