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'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.
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Front Matter
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LYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE is a Lecturer in English in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the editor (with John Phillips) of Reading Melanie Klein.
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Book Title: The Destructive Element
Book Subtitle: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism
Authors: Lyndsey Stonebridge
Series Title: Language, Discourse, Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26721-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Lyndsey Stonebridge 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-67838-1Published: 19 July 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-26721-7Published: 22 July 1998
Series ISSN: 2947-0188
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 210
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis