Why War? - Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein

Informationen zum Autor Jaqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Her numerous publications include The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction (1984) and The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991). Klappentext What is so compelling about war? On what powers of fascination and repulsion did Margaret Thatcher draw? What part does unconscious fantasy play in the way our political identities are formed? Why has there been so much dispute over the work of Melanie Klein? Over the past decade, psychoanalysis has been a focus of continuing controversy for feminism, and at the center of debates in the humanities about how we read literature and culture. In these essays, Jacqueline Rose continues her engagement with these issues while arguing for a shift of attention - from an emphasis on sexuality as writing to the place of the unconscious in the furthest reaches of our cultural and political lives. With essays on war, capital punishment and the dispute over seduction in relation to Freud, she opens up the field of psychopolitics. Finally in two extended essays on Melanie Klein and her critics, she suggests that it is time for a radical rereading of Klein's work. Zusammenfassung * Controversial appraisal of the role of the unconscious in our political lives* Deals with the Thatcher phenomenon* Urges radical re--reading of Melanie Klein* Author enjoys celebrity for her controversial book on Sylvia Plath. . Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Introduction: Michael Payne. Part I: Psycho--Politics:. 1. a Why War?a . 2. Margaret Thatcher and Ruth Ellis. Part II: The Death Drive:. 3. a Where Does the Misery Come From?a -- Psychoanalysis! Feminism and the Event. 4. Shakespeare and the Death Drive. Part III: Returning to Klein:. 5. Negativity in the work of Melanie Klein. 6. War in the Nursery. An Interview with Jacqueline Rose. Jacqueline Rose: A Bibliography! 1974--1992: Nancy Weyant. Appendix: Intellectual Inhibition and Eating Disorders: Melitta Schmideberg. Index. ...

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• Authors: J Rose, Jacqueline Rose, Jacqueline (Queen Mary and Westfield College Rose, Rose Jacqueline
• Assisted by: Michael Payne (Editor), Harold Schweizer (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.1993
• EAN: 9780631189244
• ISBN: 978-0-631-18924-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Bucknell Lectures in Literary; Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Political science & theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies: women, Political science and theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis