Dr Amber Jacobs
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Amber Jacobs' research background is in literature, feminism, psychoanalysis, Ancient Greek myth and tragedy.
Her monograph, On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis and the Law of the Mother is an intervention into classical psychoanalysis via structural anthropology and feminist philosophy that posits a new post-patriarchal theory of the symbolic order. She has published articles on psychoanalytic feminism and the mother-daughter relation in cinema, literature and feminist thought.
Her current work involves re-readings and expansions of psychoanalytic theories to accommodate new forms of subjectivities in the context of social, cultural and technological change. Her recent research is in visual culture, digital technologies, film theories, the relation between new media technologies and unconscious fantasy and theories of feminist and Queer spectatorship that challenge dominant psychoanalytic models of the gaze and sexual difference. She is also interested in the analysis of formal techniques in filmmaking that rework the relation between the image and power, and in making her own films.
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Psychoanalysis - Post-Freudian tradition ( Freud, Klein, Lacan, Bion, Winnicott, Andre Green, Laplanche).
- Psychoanalytic feminist theory and feminist philosophy - my research is concerned with theorising beyond the classical Oedipal paradigm. I am especially interested in the work of Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, Juliet Mitchell, Jessica Benjamin Jean Laplanche (among others) as post Lacanian theorists who are attempting to think through a post-patriarchal symbolic order.
- Ancient Greek myth and tragedy (feminist interpretations and political uses of) and contemporary recycling of myth in literature, culture and theory.
- Writing and sexual difference, particularly contemporary literature by women.
- Theories and constructions of the maternal both in psychoanalytic feminism and contemporary culture.
- Representations and constructions of misogyny in cinema, literature and visual arts.
- Visual culture, theories of gender and spectatorship, film theory, feminist cinema and practice as research (audiovisual practices).
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Current doctoral researchers
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REBECCA GREENSLADE
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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SASHA BERGSTROM-KATZ
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SASHA BERGSTROM-KATZ
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SHARON TUGWELL
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MATTHEW OAKES
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VALERIE SANDERS
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MIKE STACK
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JOSHUA CUNLIFFE
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Jacobs, Amber (2016) On the maternal ‘Creaturely’ cinema of Andrea Arnold. Journal of British Cinema and Television 13 (1), pp. 160-176. ISSN 1743-4521.
- Jacobs, Amber (2013) We need to talk about women’s cinema. Sequence: Serial Studies in Media, Film and Music 2, ISSN 2052-3033.
- Jacobs, Amber (2009) The life of Metis: cunning maternal interventions. Studies in the Maternal 2 (1-2), ISSN 1759-0434.
- Jacobs, Amber (2007) The potential of theory: Melanie Klein, Luce Irigaray and the mother-daughter relation. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 22 (3), pp. 175-193. ISSN 0887-5367.
- Jacobs, Amber (2006) Perspectives on Teresa Brennan's, 'The Transmission of Affect'. Women: A Cultural Review 17 (1), pp. 103-117. ISSN 0957-4042.
- Jacobs, Amber (2004) Towards a structural theory of matricide: psychoanalysis, the Oresteia and the maternal prohibition. Women: A Cultural Review 15 (1), pp. 19-34. ISSN 0957-4042.
Book
- Jacobs, Amber (2007) On matricide: myth, psychoanalysis and the law of the mother. New York, USA: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231512053.
Book Section
- Jacobs, Amber (2015) The demise of the analogue mind: digital primal fantasies and the technologies of loss-less-ness. In: Frosh, Stephen (ed.) Psychosocial Imaginaries. Studies in the Psychosocial. Springer. pp. 126-144. ISBN 9781349570096.
Video
- Grant, Catherine and Jacobs, Amber (2018) Persona non grata sonata. MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture.