ABSTRACT
I began including the scholarly voice in my own scholarly repertoire six years ago, inspired by the work of feminist psychoanalytic theorists, in particular by Jane Gallop. At that time I was working for my PhD thesis on a group of myths which featured the motif of women resisting sex and marriage. I had reached something of an impasse and was unhappy with the lack of theorisation of subjectivity in my work. The woman I had originally placed at its centre kept sliding to the periphery and I had begun to think that I did not know what it meant to describe a project as womancentred. “Thinking through autobiography”, which is one of the ways in which Gallop describes her project (Gallop, 1988: 4), allowed me to match the liminality of the mythical women with what I perceived to be my own marginal position as regards mainstream tenured classicists whose concerns successfully marginalised mine.
