The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism

by Lyndsey Stonebridge

Overview

'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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333678381
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/22/1998
Series:	Language, Discourse, Society
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

LYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE is a Lecturer in English in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the editor (with John Phillips) of Reading Melanie Klein.

Table of Contents

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