On Replacement

276 Pages·2018·3.5 MB·English

by  Jean Owen, Naomi Segal

Edited by
JEAN OWEN &
NAOMI SEGAL
On Replacement
Cultural, Social
and Psychological
Representations
On Replacement
Jean Owen • Naomi Segal
Editors
On Replacement
Cultural, Social and Psychological Representations
Editors
Jean Owen Naomi Segal
London, UK Birkbeck, University of London
London, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-76010-0 ISBN 978-3-319-76011-7 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76011-7
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and to the irreplaceable Scarlet
A
cknowledgements
This book grew out of a conference held in December 2016 at Birkbeck,
University of London, in association with Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics
of Kinship and Community (BRAKC) and the Birkbeck Institute for
Social Research (BISR). We would like to extend a special thank you to
Andrew Asibong, Nathalie Wourm, Maddison Brown and Melissa Butcher
for all their support.
For permission to reproduce the images in the book we thank the Center
for Jewish Film, Archivi Alinari Firenze and Lita Stantic Producciones.
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ontents
1 Introduction 1
Naomi Segal and Jean Owen
Part I What is replacement? 13
2 ‘An eye for an eye’ or ‘a mile to a mile’: versions
of replacement 15
Naomi Segal
3 Replacement mothers, bedtricks and daughters out
of place 25
Jean Owen
4 Replacement, renewal and redundancy 35
James Brown
Part II Lost children 45
5 Lost boys in Little Eyolf 47
Olivia Noble Gunn
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6 The Sisters Antipodes: replacement and its ripples
of sibling rivalry 57
Jean Owen
7 Artificial intelligence and synthetic humans: loss
and replacement 67
Georgia Panteli
Part III Wayward Women 77
8 The metaphysics of replacement in photoplay novels
of immigration 79
Marija Dalbello
9 Of ghosts and girls in Ulysses 13 91
Patrizia Grimaldi-Pizzorno
10 Medea: founder member of the first wives’ club 103
Mary Hamer
11 Replacement and genealogy in Jane Eyre and Wide
Sargasso Sea 113
Nagihan Haliloğlu
Part IV Law and society 123
12 Who is the ‘real’ mother? Replacement and the politics
of surrogacy 125
Samantha Ashenden
13 The ethos of replaceability in European human rights law 137
Sarah Trotter
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14 Remembering the disappeared in Lita Stantic’s
Un muro de silencio 147
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
Part V Replacement films 159
15 Deadness, replacement and the divinely new: 45 Years 161
Andrew Asibong
16 ‘She was the most beautiful creature I ever saw’:
visualising replacement in Hitchcock’s Rebecca 169
Laura Mulvey
17 Married to the Eiffel Tower: notes on love, loss
and replacement 177
Agnieszka Piotrowska
18 ‘That’s my son’: replacement, jealousy and sacrifice
in Un Secret 185
Naomi Segal
Part VI The Holocaust 193
19 Replacement as personal haunting in recent
postmemory works 195
Susanne Baackmann
20 Embodying her ghost: self-replacement in Petzold’s
Phoenix 207
Monika Loewy
21 Replacement or ever present: Jerzyk, Irit and Miriam 217
Anthony Rudolf
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Part VII Psychoanalysis 229
22 Replacement and reparation in Sarah Polley’s Stories
we tell 231
Agnieszka Piotrowska
23 Replacement, objet a and the dynamic of desire/fantasy
in Rebecca 241
Odeya Kohen Raz and Sandra Meiri
24 Rooms as replacements for people: the consulting room
as a room object 251
Deborah Wright
Index 263