Dolls, photography and the late Lacan : doubles beyond the uncanny / / Rosalinda Quintieri

• Autore: Quintieri Rosalinda
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2020
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
• Disciplina: 700.103; 306.47
• Soggetto topico: Arts and society; Dolls in art
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Introduction: "Quasi-subjects": the hypermodern double between flatness and affective excess -- 1 The modern doppelgänger: enjoyment as subversion -- Dolls, mimicry and "subjective detumescence" -- Pūpa as puppa: the doll as a maternal Thing -- 2 Enjoy (you must)! Olivier Rebufa and Barbie's dreamlife -- The flatness of the capitalist fantasia -- That has never been: dea(p)th-less photography -- Narcissus and the echo of capital -- Simulacrum interruptus: capitalist metonymy "running empty" -- 3 Silicone Love: photography as de-Realisation -- Documentary as "purposeful" pictorialism -- Diet Pink Lemonade: the illusion of an other without Other -- The double as Ego supplement -- 4 Laurie Simmons: pictures beyond the gaze -- From "picture envy" to "the magic of the Hollywood style at its best" -- Kawaii: the cuteness of the commodity -- Beyond the Lacanian gaze: the image-substance -- 5 Lars and the Real Girl: a tale of the New Father -- The hypermodern kolossós: from symptom to sinthome -- Propped-up fathers and the Other of care -- Conclusions: doubles beyond the uncanny -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this fascinating new book, Rosalinda Quintieri addresses some of the key questions of visual theory concerning our unending fascination with simulacra by evaluating the recent return of the life-size doll in European and American visual culture. Through a focus on the contemporary photographic and cinematic forms of this figure and a critical mobilisation of its anthropological complexity, this book offers a new critical understanding of this classical aesthetic motif as a way to explore the relevance that doubling, fantasy and simulation hold in our contemporary culture. Quintieri explores the figure of the inanimate human double as an "inhuman partner", reflecting on contemporary visuality as the field of a hypermodern, post-Oedipal aesthetic. Through a series of case studies that blur traditional boundaries between practices (photography, performance, sculpture, painting, documentary) and between genres (comedy, drama, fairy tale), Quintieri puts in contrast the new function of the double and its plays of simulations on the background of the capitalist injunction to enjoy. Engaging with new theories on post-Oedipal forms of subjectivity developed within the Lacanian orientation of psychoanalysis, Quintieri offers exciting analyses of still and moving photographic work, giving body to an original aesthetic model that promises to revitalise our understanding of contemporary photography and visual culture. It will appeal to psychoanalysts and researchers from Lacanian psychoanalysis, visual studies and cultural theory, as well as readers with an academic interest in the cultural history of dolls and the theory of the uncanny.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dolls, photography and the late Lacan
• ISBN: 1-00-313465-3; 1-000-30014-5; 1-003-13465-3; 1-000-30004-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910860814503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Lines of the symbolic series in psychoanalysis.