The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Psychoanalysis Photography Deconstruction 1st Edition by Elissa Marder ISBN 082324055X 9780823240555

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ISBN 10: 082324055X

ISBN 13: 9780823240555 

Author:  Elissa Marder 

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 the psyche, and ultimately undermines his patriarchalaccounts 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 function challenges traditional psychoanalytic models of the subject, troubles existing systems of representation, and provides a fertile source for nonmimetic, nonlinear conceptions of time and space.The readings in this book examine 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. The maternal body often serves as an unacknowledged reference point for modern media technologies such as photography and the telephone, which attempt to mimic its reproductive properties. To the extent that these technologies aim to usurp the maternal function, they are often deployed as a means of regulating or warding off anxieties that are provoked by the experience of loss that real separation from the mother invariably demands. As the incarnation of our first relation to the strange exile of language, the mother is inherently a literary figure, whose primal presence in literary texts opens us up to theunspeakable relation to our own birth and, in so doing, helps us give birth to new and fantasmatic images of futures that might otherwise have remained unimaginable.

Table of contents:

Part One: Psychoanalysis and the Maternal Function

• One: The Sex of Death and the Maternal Crypt

• Two: Mourning, Magic, and Telepathy

• Three: The Sexual Animal and the Primal Scene of Birth

• Four: Back of Beyond: Anxiety and the Birth of the Future

Part Two: Photography and the Prosthetic Maternal

• Five: On Psycho-Photography: Shame and Abu Ghraib

• Six: Avital Ronell’s Body Politics

• Seven: Blade Runner’s Moving Still

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

Part Three: Photo-Readings and the Possible Impossibilities of Literature

• Nine: Darkroom Readings: Scenes of Maternal Photography

• Ten: The Mother Tongue in Phèdre and Frankenstein

• Eleven: Birthmarks (Given Names)

• Twelve: Bit: Mourning Remains in Derrida and Cixous

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