Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Psychoanalysis, Photography, Deconstruction

Name: Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Psychoanalysis, Photography, Deconstruction
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ISBN: 9780823240562

ISBN-10: 0823240568

ISBN-13: 9780823240562

Edition: 2012

Authors: Elissa Marder

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This book grows out of a longstanding fascination with the uncanny status of the mother in literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, film, and photography. The mother haunts Freud's writings on art and literature, emerges as an obscure stumbling block in his metapsychological accounts of thepsyche, and ultimately undermines his patriarchal accounts of the Oedipal complex as a foundation for human culture. The figure of the mother becomes associated with some of psychoanalysis's most unruly and enigmatic concepts (the uncanny, anxiety, the primal scene, the crypt, and magical thinking).Read in relation to deconstructive approaches to the work of mourning, this book shows how the maternal…

Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 2/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Pandora's Legacy



Psychoanalysis and the Maternal Function



The Sex of Death and the Maternal Crypt



Mourning, Magic, and Telepathy



The Sexual Animal and the Primal Scene of Birth



Back of Beyond: Anxiety and the Birth of the Future



Photography and the Prosthetic Maternal



On Psycho-Photography: Shame and Abu Ghraib



Avital Ronell's Body Politics



Blade Runner's Moving Still



Nothing to Say: Fragments on the Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction



Photo-Readings And The Possible Impossibilities of Literature



Darkroom Readings: Scenes of Maternal Photography



The Mother Tongue in Phï¿½dre and Frankenstein



Birthmarks (Given Names)



Bit: Mourning Remains in Derrida and Cixous


Notes


Bibliography


Index