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This book is an interdisciplinary study of the human drama of
replacement. Is one's irreplaceability dependent on surrounding
oneself by a replication of others? Is love intrinsically
repetitious or built on a fantasy of uniqueness? The sense that a
person's value is blotted out if someone takes their place can be
seen in the serial monogamy of our age and in the lives of
'replacement children' - children born into a family that has
recently lost a child, whom they may even be named after. The book
investigates various forms of replacement, including AI and
doubling, incest and bedtricks, imposters and revenants, human
rights and 'surrogacy', and intertextuality and adaptation. The
authors highlight the emotions of betrayal, jealousy and desire
both within and across generations. On Replacement consists of 24
essays divided into seven sections: What is replacement?, Law &
society, Wayward women, Lost children, Replacement films, The
Holocaust and Psychoanalysis. The book will appeal to anyone
engaged in reading cultural and social representations of
replacement.
Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look
at social issues - especially issues of change and mobility -
through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from
cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and
biopolitics.
Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look
at social issues - especially issues of change and mobility -
through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from
cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and
biopolitics.
This collection looks from a variety of angles at the human body as it resists the determinations of gender, sexuality, socialization, and history. Ranging from classical hermaphrodites, Bruegel's blind faces and Weimar transgender surgery, via Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, state-socialist sport and Proust, to Barbie, Lari Pittman, American Psycho, IVF, and video dance, the 16 essays question the relationship between politics, culture, and desire.
Scarlet Letters explores the fascination exerted by adultery
throughout the long history of western cultures. Critics from the
UK, USA and Australia, working in a variety of specialisms, have
contributed to this substantial new collection of close readings
and wider contextualisations. As well as focusing on the bourgeois
nineteenth century as the high age of representations of adultery,
the book offers historicist and psychoanalytic analyses of texts
ranging from the Amphitryon myth to Fatal Attraction and The Piano
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This book is an interdisciplinary study of the human drama of
replacement. Is one's irreplaceability dependent on surrounding
oneself by a replication of others? Is love intrinsically
repetitious or built on a fantasy of uniqueness? The sense that a
person's value is blotted out if someone takes their place can be
seen in the serial monogamy of our age and in the lives of
'replacement children' - children born into a family that has
recently lost a child, whom they may even be named after. The book
investigates various forms of replacement, including AI and
doubling, incest and bedtricks, imposters and revenants, human
rights and 'surrogacy', and intertextuality and adaptation. The
authors highlight the emotions of betrayal, jealousy and desire
both within and across generations. On Replacement consists of 24
essays divided into seven sections: What is replacement?, Law &
society, Wayward women, Lost children, Replacement films, The
Holocaust and Psychoanalysis. The book will appeal to anyone
engaged in reading cultural and social representations of
replacement.
This collection looks from a variety of angles at the human body as
it resists the determinations of gender, sexuality, socialisation
and history. Ranging from classical hermaphrodites, Bruegel's blind
faces and Weimar transgender surgery, via Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
, state-socialist sport and Proust, to Barbie, Lari Pittman,
American Psycho , IVF and video dance, the sixteen essays question
the relationship between politics, culture and desire. This richly
illustrated book also features the original work of two young
photographers and a theatre director.
This 1986 study of Manon Lescaut draws on various debates in the
fields of psychoanalysis, feminism and literary criticism. It has
two principal aims: to analyse this story of a young man's passion
for a femme fatale as it is presented by the narrator; and to
suggest ways in which feminist criticism can help explain how the
text operates. The volume is in three parts. In Part I, Dr Segal
offers a close reading of Manon Lescaut in which the narrator's
relationship with language is the key issue. Part II considers four
central themes which are present in the text's language and
structure: money, the image of the woman, the concept of the
double, and fatality. In the final part the author presents a
feminist critique of Freud and Lacan, and develops thereby a
fascinating version of the Oedipus Complex which is brought to bear
on Manon Lescaut.
In June 1938 Sigmund Freud and his family arrived in London, exiles
from Nazi-occupied Austria. Now, seventy years later, Freud's
exile, together with the general exodus of psychoanalysts from the
German-speaking world, can be seen as a turning-point in modern
cultural history. The displacement of the centre of gravity of the
psychoanalytic movement from Vienna to London (and thence - via
English translations - to the United States and the wider world)
helped make Freud's theories into one of the most influential
intellectual systems of the twentieth century. This book, with
contributions from some of the world's most eminent Freud scholars,
marks the fiftieth anniversary of Freud's exile and discusses its
impact on the development of psychoanalysis. The first section
examines the specifically Viennese-Jewish origins of Freudian
theory and the nature and effects of the psychoanalytic exodus. One
chapter considers Freud's library and his private reading, a study
facilitated by the Freud Museum in London. Section two considers
the English reception of psychoanalysis.The role of Ernest Jones in
transmitting Freud's ideas is examined, and there are chapters on
Adrian Stokes, Wilhelm Stekel and the fate of Freudian analysts in
exile, particularly in the United States. Closely linked to the
cultural displacement of psychoanalysis is the issue of the
translation of Freud's writing. Section three considers problems
involved in such translation and retranslation - and the question
of revising the Standard Edition of Freud. The final section
identifies perspectives for the future which derive from the
continuing psychoanalytic debate. It includes chapters on changing
theories of childhood since Freud, Freud and the question of women
and feminism, psychoanalysis and anthropology, and Freud's
influence on other forms of psychotherapy. With full scholarly
references, documents and illustrations from the Freud archives,
many of them reproduced here, this volume demonstrates how Freud's
exile (fulfilment of his wish 'to die in freedom') stimulated the
growth of psychoanalysis in the English-speaking world. It provides
an important reassessment of Freud's contribution to
twentieth-century thought.
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