The aim of this paper is to clarify Sylvia Plath’s theme of criticizingfemale metaphysics functioning as a mechanism of oppression, by analyzingher poem “The Disquieting Muses.” Extant feminist Plath studies, in linewith the theories of deconstruction and feminism in general, are based onthe dichotomy of male-oppressors vs. female-victims. But Plath’s poeticinsight undermines this polarized gender perspective, exposing and accusingmetaphysics and oppression sustained and practiced by woman.The focus of analysis is on the speaker of the poem denouncing Christianmetaphysics and resisting the mother’s “phallic” desire to identify herdaughter’s life with, and incorporate it into, her own. Theories of JacquesDerrida’s deconstruction and Luce Irigaray’s feminism are applied to theanalysis. In the end, this paper illuminates Plath’s dream of the desirablefeminine life characterized by an anti-metaphysical aestheticism of enjoyingthe material and bodily sensations of earthly life.