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The Destructive Element

British Psychoanalysis and Modernism

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Lyndsey Stonebridge

    1. University of East Anglia, UK

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: From Bokhara to Samarra: Psychoanalysis and Modernism

    • Lyndsey Stonebridge
    Pages 1-21

  3. Sticks for Dahlias: The Destructive Element in Literary Criticism and Melanie Klein

    • Lyndsey Stonebridge
    Pages 22-45

  4. Is the Room a Tomb? Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and the Kleinians

    • Lyndsey Stonebridge
    Pages 46-78

  5. Rhythm: Breaking the Illusion

    • Lyndsey Stonebridge
    Pages 79-107

  6. Stone Love: Adrian Stokes and the Inside Out

    • Lyndsey Stonebridge
    Pages 108-141

  7. Frames, Frontiers and Fantasies: ‘Nasty Ladies Within’ — Marion Milner and Stevie Smith

    • Lyndsey Stonebridge
    Pages 142-172

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 173-210
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About this book

'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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of East Anglia, UK

    Lyndsey Stonebridge

About the author

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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