ABSTRACT

First I want to ask, can the practice of theory making – and in this instance, theorising matricide – have any productive and potentially usable links with the actual practices of mothering, with being a mother, with having a mother, with thinking about being and/or having a mother and representing the vicissitudes of the maternal realm in the sociosymbolic, material, cultural and clinical dimensions? Theorising matricide in the context of feminism and psychoanalysis is one way I have found, to understand, give an account of, if not transform the complex relation between the psychosexual and the social rather than being thought by it.