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Cultures of the death drive : Melanie Klein and modernist melancholia / Esther Sanchez-Pardo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sánchez-Pardo, Esther.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Post-contemporary interventions.
- Post-contemporary interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Klein, Melanie.
- Death instinct.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (504 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Itineraries
- Kleinian metapsychology
- Femininities : melancholia, masquerade and the paternal superego
- Masculinities : anxiety, sadism and the intricacies of object-love
- Kleinian melancholia
- The death drive and aggression
- The setting (up) of Phantasy
- Modernist cultures of the death drive
- Framing the fetish: To the Lighthouse: Ceci n'est pas un roman
- Funereal rites : melancholia, masquerade and the art of biography in Lytton Strachey
- Melancholia reborn: Djuna Barnes's styles of grief
- Melancholia, the new Negro and the fear of modernity: forms sublime and denigrated in Countee Cullen's writings.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-474) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612920738
- 9781282920736
- 1282920731
- 9780822384748
- 0822384744
- OCLC:
- 850217959
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