This is a book about matricide, about matricide and separation from the mother, about matricide and gender, matricide and destructiveness. It offers the reader a far-reaching and devastating critique of masculinity, femininity, and contemporary culture.
The author vargues that the Western psyche is based upon denial of the power of the mother. Through clinical material and re-readings of myths, fairytales, and other cultural artefacts, she demonstrates how this act of universal matricide has wrought havoc.