Dear Colleagues

 

I am delighted to let you know of the recent publication of my latest coedited book.

 

Jean Owen & Naomi Segal (eds), On Replacement: Cultural, Social and Psychological Representations

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 attached flier- for those jiscs that allow attachments – offers a 20% discount until 31 October. All info is on Palgrave.com and on Springer Link.

 

With best wishes

Naomi

 

 

Prof Naomi Segal

Visiting Professor in French & German Studies

Dept of Cultures & Languages, School of Arts

Birkbeck, University of London

43, Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, UK

 

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