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The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism (Language, Discourse, Society) (Hardcover)

by Lyndsey Stonebridge (Author) "'In the destructive element immerse...that was the way' ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (22 Jul 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0333678370
ISBN-13: 978-0333678374
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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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