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In her interpretation of the myth of Adam and Eve in the garden, Anne-Marie Dardigna recalls Eve’s gesture of subversion: Eve senses the presence of the Tree of Knowledge, she tastes the fruit, and introduces new values of pleasure and perception. When she disrupts the pact of Father and Son, she is punished by male domination of her desire: “Thy desire shall be thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” In Genesis, the Father-Son alliance is reasserted: “the Father and the Son are reconciled by denying the desire of Eve as subject and transforming her into an object of their desire”. Men remain fearful of the dangers: knowing women, and knowing a woman threaten the Law of the Fathers. – Somer Brodribb.