Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction: Pandora's Legacy | p. 1 |
Psychoanalysis and the Maternal Function | |
The Sex of Death and the Maternal Crypt | p. 19 |
Mourning, Magic, and Telepathy | p. 37 |
The Sexual Animal and the Primal Scene of Birth | p. 53 |
Back of Beyond: Anxiety and the Birth of the Future | p. 77 |
Photography and the Prosthetic Maternal | |
On Psycho-Photography: Shame and Abu Ghraib | p. 91 |
Avital Ronell's Body Politics | p. 111 |
Blade Runner's Moving Still | p. 130 |
Nothing to Say: Fragments on the Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | p. 149 |
Photo-Readings And The Possible Impossibilities of Literature | |
Darkroom Readings: Scenes of Maternal Photography | p. 163 |
The Mother Tongue in Phédre and Frankenstein | p. 195 |
Birthmarks (Given Names) | p. 214 |
Bit: Mourning Remains in Derrida and Cixous | p. 229 |
Notes | p. 251 |
Bibliography | p. 285 |
Index | p. 301 |
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