Dolls, Photography and the Late Lacan : Doubles Beyond the Uncanny.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Introduction: "Quasi-subjects": the hypermodern double between flatness and affective excess -- 1 The modern doppelgänger: enjoyment as subversion -- Dolls, mimicry and "subjective detumescence" -- Pūpa as puppa: the doll as a maternal Thing -- 2 Enjoy (you must)! Olivier Rebufa and Barbie's dreamlife -- The flatness of the capitalist fantasia -- That has never been: dea(p)th-less photography -- Narcissus and the echo of capital -- Simulacrum interruptus: capitalist metonymy "running empty" -- 3 Silicone Love: photography as de-Realisation -- Documentary as "purposeful" pictorialism -- Diet Pink Lemonade: the illusion of an other without Other -- The double as Ego supplement -- 4 Laurie Simmons: pictures beyond the gaze -- From "picture envy" to "the magic of the Hollywood style at its best" -- Kawaii: the cuteness of the commodity -- Beyond the Lacanian gaze: the image-substance -- 5 Lars and the Real Girl: a tale of the New Father -- The hypermodern kolossós: from symptom to sinthome -- Propped-up fathers and the Other of care -- Conclusions: doubles beyond the uncanny -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

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