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The Destructive Element

British Psychoanalysis and Modernism

Lyndsey Stonebridge author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:19th Jul '98

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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.

ISBN: 9780333678381

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210 pages

1998 ed.