The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Psychoanalysis, Photography, Deconstruction

by Elissa Marder

Book Overview

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 patriarchal accounts of the Oedipal complex as a foundation for human culture. The figure ofthe mother becomes associated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823240568
• ISBN13: 9780823240562
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"