The Destructive Element

British Psychoanalysis and Modernism

Lyndsey Stonebridge (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1998
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-92161-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Lyndsey Stonebridge

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.1999
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	204 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	0-415-92161-9 / 0415921619
ISBN-13	978-0-415-92161-9 / 9780415921619
Zustand	Neuware