Cultures of the death drive : Melanie Klein and modernist melancholia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sánchez-Pardo, Esther
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
Series:	Post-contemporary interventions.
Subjects:	Death instinct. Psychoanalysis. Klein, Melanie. Klein, Melanie, > 1882-1960. Depressive Disorder > psychology. Psychoanalytic Theory. Schizophrenia, Paranoid > psychology. Suicide, Attempted > psychology. Psychoanalyse. Letterkunde. Beeldende kunsten. Melancholie. Modernisme (cultuur) Doodsdrift. Pulsion de mort. Mélancolie. Sexualité. Modernisme (Art) Modernisme (Littérature) Psychanalyse. Todestrieb.

Table of 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.