{"product_id":"9783031780684","title":"Motherless Daughters and Female Monsters Androcentric Fantasy in Ancient Greek Myth and Freudian Theory","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMotherless Daughters and Female Monsters\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAndrocentric Fantasy in Ancient Greek Myth and Freudian Theory\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJessica Elbert Decker\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ History \u0026amp; Surveys \/ Ancient \u0026amp; Classical\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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).\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJessica Elbert Decker\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, San Marcos, where she teaches in the philosophy and environmental studies programs. Her research focuses on Ancient Greek poetic texts, especially those of Sappho, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, and Homer. Her philosophical methodology uses the tools of Continental Philosophy, Feminist Classics, and psychoanalysis to approach these ancient texts from a critical feminist (and often ecofeminist) perspective. She is co-editor of \u003cem\u003eOtherwise Than the Binary: New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture \u003c\/em\u003e(SUNY Press, 2022) and \u003cem\u003eBorderlands and Liminal Subjects: Transgressing the Limit in Philosophy and Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave, 2018). Her current book project is a monograph on the text of Heraclitus that contextualizes his philosophical value in the Continental tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30 December 2025\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783031780684\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e221\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52368884760716,"sku":"9783031780684","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031780684.jpg?v=1786626766","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783031780684","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}