Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia

Esther Sánchez-Pardo

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Cultures of the Death Drive

Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia

Esther Sánchez-Pardo
Edited by: Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2003

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Post-Contemporary Interventions

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A study of melancholia, sexuality, and representation in literary and visual texts that can be read at the crossroads of psychoanalysis and the arts in modernism.

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Esther Sánchez-Pardo is Associate Professor of English at Complutense University in Madrid. She has written and edited numerous books in Spanish.

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“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

”Cultures of the Death Drive is a work of great learning and original thought. I believe it will be an important source book on Klein for beginners and adepts alike.”—Fredric R. Jameson, Duke University

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Social Sciences Psychology Development Psychology

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations of the Works of Melanie Klein Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction: Anxieties and Their Vicissitudes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
PART ONE
1 Itineraries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
2 Kleinian Metapsychology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
3 Femininities: Melancholia, Masquerade, and the Paternal Superego Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	72
4 Masculinities: Anxiety, Sadism, and the Intricacies of Object-Love Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	94
5 Kleinian Melancholia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	118
6 The Death Drive and Aggression Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
7 The Setting (Up) of Phantasy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	162
PART TWO
8 Modernist Cultures of the Death Drive Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
9 Framing the Fetish: To the Lighthouse: Ceci n’est pas un roman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	218
10 Funereal Rites: Melancholia, Masquerade, and the Art of Biography in Lytton Strachey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
11 Melancholia Reborn: Djuna Barnes’s Styles of Grief Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	306
12 Melancholia, the New Negro, and the Fear of Modernity: Forms Sublime and Denigrated in Countee Cullen’s Writings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
Afterword: Modern(ist) Cultures of the Death Drive and the Melancholic Apparatus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	386
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	451
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	475

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May 1, 2003

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9780822384748

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504

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5 illus.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384748

eBook ISBN: 9780822384748

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