The Destructive Element

British Psychoanalysis and Modernism
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-92161-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 204 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stonebridge, Lyndsey

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Lyndsey Stonebridge