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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808673003321

Autore

Marder Elissa

Titolo

The mother in the age of mechanical reproduction : psychoanalysis, photography, deconstruction / / Elissa Marder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8232-4059-2

0-8232-4951-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

809/.9335252

Soggetti

Human body in literature

Human reproduction in literature

Motherhood in literature

Technology in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Phedre and Frankenstein Birthmarks (Given Names); Bit: Mourning Remains in Derrida and Cixous

Sommario/riassunto

The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction examines the uncanny properties of the maternal function in psychoanalysis, technology, and literature in order to show that the event of birth is radically unthinkable and often becomes expressed through uncontrollable repetitions that exceed the bounds of any subject.