The Destructive Element
British Psychoanalysis and Modernism
Published on 22. July 1998
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-333-67837-4 (ISBN)
Description
"In the destructive element immerse". These words from Joseph Conrad's Stein in "Lord Jim" cast a shadow over 20th-century literature. At the same time, Freud's prognosis of culture's discontents left psychoanalysis with a legacy that found one of its realizations in the play-rooms of British child psychoanalysis. This text offers a perspective on the history of our interest in culture's discontents by returning to British psychoanalysis and second-wave modernism. Those featured in the book include Melanie Klein, Virginia Woolf and Stevie Smith.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Weight
403 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-67837-4 (9780333678374)
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Content
Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - From Bokhara to Samara: Psychoanalysis and Modernism - Sticks for Dahlias: The Destructive Element in Literary Criticism and Melanie Klein - Is the Room a Tomb? Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and the Kleinians - Rhythm: Breaking the Illusion - Stone Love: Adrian Stokes and the Inside Out - Frames, Frontiers and Fantasies: 'Nasty Ladies Within' Marion Milner and Stevie Smith - Notes - Selected Bibliography - Index