"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 ...
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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.
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Add this copy of The Destructive Element to cart. $63.68, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Routledge.
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New. 210 p. Language, Discourse, Society . XI, 210 p. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. Intended for college/higher education audience.
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Minor rubbing, VG. 22x14cm, xi, 210 pp. Contents: Introduction: From Bokhara to Samarra: Psychoanalysis & Modernism; Sticks for Dahlias: The Destructive Element in Literary Criticism and Melanie Klein; Is the Room a Tomb? Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry & the Kleinians; Rhythm: Breaking the Illusion; Stone Love: Adrian Stokes &the Inside Out; Frames, Frontiers and Fantasies: 'Nasty Ladies Within': Marion Milner & Stevie Smith.
