On Replacement

Dr Jean Owen is an independent researcher based in London, UK. Her academic interests lie in feminist theory, incest studies, psychoanalysis, anthropology, narrative traditions, and first-person writing. She has published articles on Anaïs Nin, Kathryn Harrison and Krys Lee. Professor Naomi Segal researches in comparative literature, psychoanalysis and the body at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Her most recent monographs are Consensuality: Didier Anzieu, Gender and the Sense of Touch (2009) and André Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy (1998). She has run Cultural Literacy in Europe (http://cleurope.eu/) since its origin in 2007.

• 1. Naomi Segal and Jean Owen, Introduction.- 2. Section I: What is replacement?. Naomi Segal, ‘An eye for an eye’ or ‘a mile to a mile’: versions of replacement.- 3. Jean Owen, Replaced mothers, bedtricks and daughters out of place.- 4. J. P. C. Brown, Replacement, renewal and redundancy.- 5. Section II: Lost children. Olivia Noble Gunn, Lost boys in Little Eyolf.- 6. Jean Owen, The Sisters Antipodes: replacement and its ripples of sibling rivalry.- 7. Georgia Panteli, Artificial intelligence and synthetic humans: loss and replacement.- 8. Section III: Wayward Women. Marija Dalbello, The metaphysics of replacement in photoplay novels of immigration.- 9. Patrizia Grimaldi-Pizzorno, Of ghosts and girls in Ulysses 13.- 10. Mary Hamer, Medea: founder member of the first wives’ club.- 11. Nagihan Haliloğlu, Replacement and genealogy in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea.- 12. Section IV: Law & society. Samantha Ashenden, Who is the ‘real’ mother? Replacement and the politics of surrogacy.- 13. Sarah Trotter, The ethos of replaceability in European human rights law.- 14. Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, Remembering the disappeared in Lita Stantics Un muro de silencio.- 15. Section V: Replacement films. Andrew Asibong, Deadness, replacement and the divinely new: 45 Years.- 16. Laura Mulvey, ‘She was the most beautiful creature I ever saw’: visualising replacement in Hitchcock’s Rebecca.- 17. Agnieszka Piotrowska, Married to the Eiffel Tower: notes on love, loss and replacement.- 18. Naomi Segal, ‘That’s my son’: replacement, jealousy and sacrifice in Un Secret.- 19. Section VI: The Holocaust. Susanne Baackmann, Replacement as personal haunting in recent postmemory works.- 20. Monika Loewy, Embodying her ghost: self-replacement in Petzold’s Phoenix.- 21. Anthony Rudolf, Replacement or ever-present: Jerzyk, Irit and Miriam.- 22. Section VII: Psychoanalysis. Agnieszka Piotrowska, Replacement and reparation in Sarah Polley’s Stories we tell.- 23. Odeya Kohen Raz and Sandra Meiri, Replacement, objet a and the dynamic of desire/fantasy in Rebecca.- 24. Deborah Wright, Rooms as replacements for people: the consulting-room as a room object.