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The chapter begins as a theoretical statement but ends up being an ‘auto-ethnographic’ account of the author’s experiences of the production process of making the documentary Married to the Eiffel Tower. The chapter touches on the issues of ‘transference’ out of the clinic as well as loss and an attempt not to grieve, replacing it instead with a frantic activity.
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Piotrowska, A. (2018). Married to the Eiffel Tower: notes on love, loss and replacement. In: Owen, J., Segal, N. (eds) On Replacement. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76011-7_17
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