Cultures of the Death Drive - Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia

"Cultures of the Death Drive" offers a sustained consideration of Kleinian psychoanalysis for literary reading. It will doubtless open up psychoanalytic literary criticism to new and unsettling perspectives. I expect this book to have a singular and important effect on contemporary intellectual life."--Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley

Sommario

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations of the Works of Melanie Klein x

Introduction: Anxieties and Their Vicissitudes 1

Part One

1. Itineraries 23

2. Kleinian Metapsychology 55

3. Femininities: Melancholia, Masquerade, and the Paternal Superego 72

4. Masculinities: Anxiety, Sadism, and the Intricacies of Object-Love 94

5. Kleinian Melanacholia 118

6. The Death Drive and Aggression 137

7. The Setting (Up) of Phantasy 162

Part Two

8. Modernist Cultures of the Death Drive 193

9. Framing the Fetish: To the Lighthouse: Ceci n'est pas un roman 218

10. Funereal Rites: Melancholia, Masquerade, and the Art of Biography in Lytton Strachey 273

11. Melancholia Reborn: Djuna Barnes's Styles of Grief 306

12. Melancholia, the New Negro, and the Fear of Modernity: Forms Sublime and Denigrated in Countee Cullen's Writings 343

Afterword: Modern(ist) Cultures of the Death Drive and the Melancholic Apparatus 386

Notes 395

Bibliography 451

Index 475

Info autore

Esther Sánchez-Pardo

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Esther Sánchez-Pardo
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.2003
• EAN: 9780822330455
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3045-5
• Pagine: 504
• Dimensioni: 153 mm x 231 mm x 29 mm
• Peso: 678 g
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicanalisi; Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis