The destructive element : British psychoanalysis and modernism

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The destructive element : British psychoanalysis and modernism

Lyndsey Stonebridge

(Language, discourse, society)

Macmillan, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780333678374

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"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.

Table of Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - From Bokhara to Samara: Psychoanalysis and Modernism - Sticks for Dahlias: The Destructive Element in Literary Criticism and Melanie Klein - Is the Room a Tomb? Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and the Kleinians - Rhythm: Breaking the Illusion - Stone Love: Adrian Stokes and the Inside Out - Frames, Frontiers and Fantasies: 'Nasty Ladies Within' Marion Milner and Stevie Smith - Notes - Selected Bibliography - Index
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pbk ISBN 9780333678381

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'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.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction From Bokhara to Samara: Psychoanalysis and Modernism Sticks for Dahlias: The Destructive Element in Literary Criticism and Melanie Klein Is the Room a Tomb? Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and the Kleinians Rhythm: Breaking the Illusion Stone Love: Adrian Stokes and the Inside Out Frames, Frontiers and Fantasies: 'Nasty Ladies Within' Marion Milner and Stevie Smith Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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