The Destructive Element
British Psychoanalysis and Modernism
Published on 24. October 2018
224 pages
978-1-317-82790-0 (ISBN)
Description
Freud's account of the sublimated drives at work beneath the surfaces of advanced societies, alongside the modernist fictions of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, Woolf and others, both reflected and inaugurated a strain of modernism preoccupied with the darkest elements of the human psyche. In The Destructive Element Lyndsey Stonebridge examines the career and legacy of British psychoanalyst Melanie Klein as a lens through which to examine the 20th century's fascination with death drives, the sublimation of civilization's discontents and the socialization of children--fascinations that would surface throughout the cultural production of the West. At once cultural history and psychoanalytic theory, and a bold reformulation of the legacies of modernism, The Destructive Element is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Western tradition.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
3,68 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-82790-0 (9781317827900)
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10/1998
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10/1998
1st Edition
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€75.70
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Person
Lyndsey Stonebridge
Content
Introduction: From Bokhara to Samarra: Psychoanalysis and Modernism; 1: Sticks for Dahlias: The Destructive Element in Literary Criticism and Melanie Klein; 2: Is the Room a Tomb? Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and the Kleinians; 3: Rhythm: Breaking the Illusion; 4: Stone Love: Adrian Stokes and the Inside Out; 5: Frames, Frontiers and Fantasies: 'Nasty Ladies Within' - Marion Milner and Stevie Smith
