
The Destructive Element
British Psychoanalysis and Modernism
Autor | |
Quelle | Sonstige Datenquellen |
ISBN | 978-0-333-67838-1 |
Lieferbarkeit | lieferbar |
Katalogisat | Basiskatalogisat |
Verlag | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Erscheinungsdatum | 19.07.1998 |
Beschreibung (Langtext)
'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.