The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism (Language, Discourse, Society) - Hardcover

Stonebridge, Lyndsey

 
9780333678374: The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism (Language, Discourse, Society)
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ISBN 10: 0333678370 ISBN 13: 9780333678374
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Synopsis

"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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About the Author

LYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE is a Lecturer in English in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the editor (with John Phillips) of Reading Melanie Klein.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0333678370
ISBN 13 
9780333678374
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224

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