TY  - BOOK
AU  - Segal,Naomi
TI  - Replacement: Loss and Substitution in Culture and Society 
T2  - Critical Studies
SN  - 9789004759749
AV  - PK6530 
U1  - 800 23
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Literature and Cultural Studies
KW  - Criticism & Theory
KW  - Cultural History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Content -- Introduction -- 2 Replacement Children -- 3 Dead and Undead -- 4 Medea -- 5 Rebecca -- 6 Half-Human and Posthuman -- 7 The Irreplaceable André Gide -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Replacement is always dramatic. How does one thing or person appearing in the place of another – the second baby, the new lover, the maternity cover or ‘surrogate’ mother – constitute a threat to the earlier occupant of that place? Or is the superseding figure haunted by the one for whom they substitute? What happens psychologically or socially to the pair-structure which is thus up-ended? Whom do we blame, whom do we hate, when we find ourselves in this drama? What do we want when we imagine ourselves to be irreplaceable? How might the idea of uniqueness lead to an unstoppable chain of repetitions? See Less
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004759749
ER  -