Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Pandora’s Legacy 1
5. Part one. Psychoanalysis and the Maternal Function
6. One. The Sex of Death and the Maternal Crypt 17
7. Two. Mourning, Magic, and Telepathy 37
8. Three. The Sexual Animal and the Primal Scene of Birth 53
9. Four. Back of Beyond: Anxiety and the Birth of the Future 77
10. Part two. Photography and the Prosthetic Maternal
11. Five. On Psycho-Photography: Shame and Abu Ghraib 89
12. Six. Avital Ronell’s Body Politics 111
13. Seven. Blade Runner ’s Moving Still 130
14. Eight. Nothing to Say: Fragments on the Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 149
15. Part three. Photo-Readings and the Possible Impossibilities of Literature
16. Nine. Darkroom Readings: Scenes of Maternal Photography 161
17. Ten. The Mother Tongue in Phèdre and Frankenstein 195
18. Eleven. Birthmarks (Given Names) 214
19. Twelve. Bit: Mourning Remains in Derrida and Cixous 229
20. Notes 251
21. Bibliography 285
22. Index 301