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

• Autore: Marder Elissa
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.9335252
• Soggetto topico: Human body in literature; Human reproduction in literature; Motherhood in literature; Technology in literature
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The mother in the age of mechanical reproduction
• ISBN: 0-8232-4059-2; 0-8232-4951-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808673003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II