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

Stonebridge, Lyndsey

 
9780333678381: The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism (Language, Discourse, Society)
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ISBN 10: 0333678389 ISBN 13: 9780333678381
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Synopsis

'In the destructive element immerse.' These words from Joseph Conrad's Stein in Lord Jim cast a shadow over twentieth-century literature. At the same time, Freud's bleak prognosis of culture's discontents left a psychoanalysis with a legacy that found one of its most profound realisations in the play-rooms of British child psychoanalysis. In this book, Lyndsey Stonebridge offers a new perspective on the history of our fascination with culture's discontents by returning to British psychoanalysis and second-wave modernism.

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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 
0333678389
ISBN 13 
9780333678381
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
221

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