The Destructive Element

British Psychoanalysis and Modernism

By: Lyndsey Stonebridge

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Hardcover | 20 October 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Freud's account of the sublimated drives at work beneath the surfaces of "advanced" societies, alongside the modernist fictions of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, Woolf and others, both reflected and inaugurated a strain of modernism preoccupied with the darkest elements of the human psyche. In "The Destructive Element" Lyndsey Stonebridge examines the career and legacy of British psychoanalyst Melanie Klein as a lens through which to examine the 20th century's fascination with death drives, the sublimation of civilization's "discontents" and the socialization of children--fascinations that would surface throughout the cultural production of the West. At once cultural history and psychoanalytic theory, and a bold reformulation of the legacies of modernism, "The Destructive Element" is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Western tradition.

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: From Bokhara to Samarra: Psychoanalysis and Modernism	p. 1
Sticks for Dahlias: The Destructive Element in Literary Criticism and Melanie Klein	p. 22
Is the Room A Tomb? Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and the Kleinians	p. 46
Rhythm: Breaking the Illusion	p. 79
Stone Love: Adrian Stokes and the Inside Out	p. 108
Frames, Frontiers and Fantasies: 'Nasty Ladies Within' - Marion Milner and Stevie Smith	p. 142
Notes	p. 173
Selected Bibliography	p. 194
Index	p. 202
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