
Why War?
Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein
Jacqueline Rose(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 7. October 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-631-18924-4 (ISBN)
Description
Over the past decade, psychoanalysis has been a focus of continuing controversy for feminism, and at the centre of debates in the humanities about how we read literature and culture. In these essays, Jacqueline Rose continues her engagement with these issues while arguing for a shift of attention - from an emphasis on sexuality as writing to the place of the unconscious in the furthest reaches of or cultural and political lives. With essays on war, capital punishment and the dispute over seduction in relation to Freud, she opens up the field of psychopolitics. Finally in two extended essays on Melanie Klein and her critics, she suggests that it is time for a radical rereading of Klein's work.
Reviews / Votes
"In eloquent critiques, Rose explicates the complex, contradictory relations between gender and fantasy, feminism and psychoanalysis, and the dialogue initiated here certainly deserves a wide audience." Anthony Elliott, Times Higher Education SupplementMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
397 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-18924-4 (9780631189244)
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Book
10/1993
Blackwell Publishers
€75.80
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Person
Jaqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Her numerous publications include The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction (1984) and The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991).
Content
Preface viii
Introduction 1
Michael Payne
Part I Psycho-Politics 13
1 'Why War?' 15
2 Margaret Thatcher and Ruth Ellis 41
Part II The Death Drive 87
3 'Where Does the Misery Come From?' - Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Event 89
4 Shakespeare and the Death Drive 110
Part III Returning to Klein 135
5 Negativity in the Work of Melanie Klein 137
6 War in the Nursery 191
An Interview with Jacqueline Rose 231
Jacqueline Rose: A Bibliography, 1974-1992 256
Nancy Weyant
Appendix: Intellectual Inhibition and Eating Disorders 262
Melitta Schmideberg
Index 271
Introduction 1
Michael Payne
Part I Psycho-Politics 13
1 'Why War?' 15
2 Margaret Thatcher and Ruth Ellis 41
Part II The Death Drive 87
3 'Where Does the Misery Come From?' - Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Event 89
4 Shakespeare and the Death Drive 110
Part III Returning to Klein 135
5 Negativity in the Work of Melanie Klein 137
6 War in the Nursery 191
An Interview with Jacqueline Rose 231
Jacqueline Rose: A Bibliography, 1974-1992 256
Nancy Weyant
Appendix: Intellectual Inhibition and Eating Disorders 262
Melitta Schmideberg
Index 271