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“Rosalinda Quintieri’s exciting and timely book promises to revitalize critical analysis in visual culture through her discussion of contemporary modes of techno-scopophilia. Deploying neglected theoretical resources from the ‘late Lacan’ in which objects of extimacy become essential parts of our being, Quintieri’s book engages with and develops the logic of recent photographic work deploying dolls, mannikins and marionettes that break with the Freudian paradigm of the ‘uncanny’. In Quintieri’s analysis the ‘double’ no longer simply provokes a crisis of identity and meaning but opens the way to perverse pleasures of human posterity in which the post-human follows the (an)aesthetic trajectory of the doll.” – Scott Wilson, author of Scott Walker and the Song of the One-All-Alone. (Bloomsbury, 2020) DOLLS, PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE LATE LACAN 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 fgure and a critical mobilisation of its anthropological complexity, this book ofers 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 fgure of the inanimate human double as an “inhuman partner”, refecting on contemporary visuality as the feld 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 ofers 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. Rosalinda Quintieri is a post-doctoral researcher based at the University of Manchester, UK. In her research and writing, photography and visual culture converge with aesthetics, psychoanalysis and an anthropology of technology. Her previous work on the poetics of the object in outsider and contemporary art has appeared in PsicoArt and Prospero’s. She was awarded a President’s Doctoral Scholar Award (2013–2016) to complete her PhD in Art History and Visual Studies, from which this book was born. The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis Series Series Editor: Ian Parker Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix Psychoanalytic clinical and theoretical work is always embedded in specifc linguistic and cultural contexts and carries their traces, traces which this series attends to in its focus on multiple contradictory and antagonistic ‘lines of the Symbolic’. This series takes its cue from Lacan’s psychoanalytic work on three registers of human experience, the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real, and employs this distinctive understanding of cultural, communication and embodiment to link with other traditions of cultural, clinical and theoretical practice beyond the Lacanian symbolic universe. The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis Series provides a refexive reworking of theoretical and practical issues, translating psychoanalytic writing from diferent contexts, grounding that work in the specifc histories and politics that provide the conditions of possibility for its descriptions and interventions to function. The series makes connections between diferent cultural and disciplinary sites in which psychoanalysis operates, questioning the idea that there could be one single correct reading and application of Lacan. Its authors trace their own path, their own line through the Symbolic, situating psychoanalysis in relation to debates which intersect with Lacanian work, explicating it, extending it and challenging it. From the Conscious Interior to an Exterior Unconscious Lacan, Discourse Analysis, and Social Psychology David Pavón Cuéllar The Constitution of the Psychoanalytic Clinic A History of its Structure and Power Christian Dunker Pink Herrings Fantasy, Object Choice, and Sexuation Damien W. Riggs Sexual Diference, Abjection and Liminal Spaces A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Abhorrence of the Feminine Bethany Morris Dolls, Photography and the Late Lacan Doubles Beyond the Uncanny Rosalinda Quintieri For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com DOLLS, PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE LATE LACAN Doubles Beyond the Uncanny Rosalinda Quintieri First published 2021 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 Rosalinda Quintieri The right of Rosalinda Quintieri to be identifed as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifcation and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-0-367-68200-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-44502-7 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-13465-7 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC CONTENTS List of fgures ix Preface x Introduction: “Quasi-subjects”: the hypermodern double between fatness and afective excess 1 1 The modern doppelgänger: enjoyment as subversion 15 Dolls, mimicry and “subjective detumescence” 16 Pūpa as puppa: the doll as a maternal Thing 24 2 Enjoy (you must)! Olivier Rebufa and Barbie’s dreamlife 39 The fatness of the capitalist fantasia 40 That has never been: dea(p)th-less photography 48 Narcissus and the echo of capital 53 Simulacrum interruptus: capitalist metonymy “running empty” 61 3 Silicone Love: photography as de-Realisation 69 Documentary as “purposeful” pictorialism 71 Diet Pink Lemonade: the illusion of an other without Other 80 The double as Ego supplement 87 4 Laurie Simmons: pictures beyond the gaze 97 From “picture envy” to “the magic of the Hollywood style at its best” 98 Kawaii: the cuteness of the commodity 106 Beyond the Lacanian gaze: the image-substance 110 viii Contents 5 Lars and the Real Girl: a tale of the New Father 127 The hypermodern kolossós: from symptom to sinthome 128 Propped-up fathers and the Other of care 142 Conclusions: doubles beyond the uncanny 151 Selected bibliography 160 Index 170 FIGURES Front Cover: Laurie Simmons, The Love Doll/Day 32 (Blue Geisha Close-up), 2011. Fuji matte print, 119.4 × 177.8 cm. 1.1 Lacan’s diagram of the gaze, adapted from Seminar XI, “What is a Picture?” (1964). 20 2.1 Olivier Rebufa, Amour à Marseille, Bimbeloterie series, 1990. Gelatin silver print, 60 × 80 cm. 50 2.2 Lacan’s formula of the capitalist’s discourse, adapted from Discours à l’Université de Milan (1972). 54 2.3 Olivier Rebufa, X-Rays, Bimbeloterie series, 1996. Gelatin silver print, 60 × 80 cm. 60 3.1 Stéphan Gladieu, [A naked doll lying on a bed], Silicone Love, 2009. 76 3.2 Stéphan Gladieu, [A man sitting on a sofa with two dolls], Silicone Love, 2009. 79 3.3 Elena Dorfman, Slade, Still Lovers series, 2005. 82 3.4 Elena Dorfman, Galatea, Still Lovers series, 2005. 84 4.1 Laurie Simmons, The Love Doll/Day 32 (Blue Geisha, Close-up), from The Love Doll series, 2011. Fuji matte print, 119.4 × 177.8 cm. 104 4.2 Laurie Simmons, The Love Doll/Day 34 (Blue Geisha, Dressing Room), from The Love Doll series, 2011. Fuji matte print, 119.4 × 177.8 cm. 105

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