Why War?
Psychoanalysis and the Return to Melanie Klein
Jacqueline Rose(Author)
Blackwell Publishers
Published on 7. October 1993
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-0-631-18923-7 (ISBN)
Description
Over the past decade, psychoanalysis has been at the centre of debates within the humanities, crucial to new ways of reading literature and a focus of continuing controversy for feminism. In these essays, Jacqueline Rose draws on these concerns while arguing that a shift of attention is now needed, from desire, sexuality and writing, to the place of the unconscious in the furthest reaches of our cultural and political lives. With essays on war, Margaret Thatcher and the dispute over seduction in relation to Freud, she offers new forms of potential psychopolitical understanding. Finally, in two extended essays on Melanie Klein and the earliest controversies over her theories, she suggests that it is time for a radical re-reading of her work.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
463 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-18923-7 (9780631189237)
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Content
1."Why War?" 2. Margaret Thatcher and Ruth Ellis. Part II: The Death Drive 3. "Where does the misery come from?" - psychoanalysis, feminism and the event 4. Shakespeare and the death drive. Part III: Returning to Klein 5. Negativity in the work of Melanie Klein 6. War in the nursery Interview: Jacqueline Rose with Maire Jaanus and Michael Payne. Appendix: Melitta Schmideberg, Intellectual Inhibition and Eating Disorders.