Why war?-- psychoanalysis, politics, and the return to Melanie Klein
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Why war?-- psychoanalysis, politics, and the return to Melanie Klein
（The Bucknell lectures in literary theory, 8）
Blackwell, 1993
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Includes bibligraphical references and index
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ISBN 9780631189237
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Over the past decade, psychoanalysis has been at the centre of debates within the humanities, crucial to new ways of reading literature and a focus of continuing controversy for feminism. In these essays, Jacqueline Rose draws on these concerns while arguing that a shift of attention is now needed, from desire, sexuality and writing, to the place of the unconscious in the furthest reaches of our cultural and political lives. With essays on war, Margaret Thatcher and the dispute over seduction in relation to Freud, she offers new forms of potential psychopolitical understanding. Finally, in two extended essays on Melanie Klein and the earliest controversies over her theories, she suggests that it is time for a radical re-reading of her work.
Table of Contents
1."Why War?" 2. Margaret Thatcher and Ruth Ellis. Part II: The Death Drive 3. "Where does the misery come from?" - psychoanalysis, feminism and the event 4. Shakespeare and the death drive. Part III: Returning to Klein 5. Negativity in the work of Melanie Klein 6. War in the nursery Interview: Jacqueline Rose with Maire Jaanus and Michael Payne. Appendix: Melitta Schmideberg, Intellectual Inhibition and Eating Disorders.
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: pbk ISBN 9780631189244
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Over the past decade, psychoanalysis has been a focus of continuing controversy for feminism, and at the centre of debates in the humanities about how we read literature and culture. In these essays, Jacqueline Rose continues her engagement with these issues while arguing for a shift of attention - from an emphasis on sexuality as writing to the place of the unconscious in the furthest reaches of or cultural and political lives. With essays on war, capital punishment and the dispute over seduction in relation to Freud, she opens up the field of psychopolitics. Finally in two extended essays on Melanie Klein and her critics, she suggests that it is time for a radical rereading of Klein's work.
Table of Contents
Preface viii
Introduction 1
Michael Payne
Part I Psycho-Politics 13
1 'Why War?' 15
2 Margaret Thatcher and Ruth Ellis 41
Part II The Death Drive 87
3 'Where Does the Misery Come From?' - Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Event 89
4 Shakespeare and the Death Drive 110
Part III Returning to Klein 135
5 Negativity in the Work of Melanie Klein 137
6 War in the Nursery 191
An Interview with Jacqueline Rose 231
Jacqueline Rose: A Bibliography, 1974-1992 256
Nancy Weyant
Appendix: Intellectual Inhibition and Eating Disorders 262
Melitta Schmideberg
Index 271
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