Sánchez-Pardo / Esther Sanchez-Pardo / Fish Cultures of the Death Drive

Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8474-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 503 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sánchez-Pardo, Esther

Esther Sanchez-Pardo, Sanchez-Pardo

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations of the Works of Melanie Klein x

Introduction: Anxieties and Their Vicissitudes 1

Part One

1. Itineraries 23

2. Kleinian Metapsychology 55

3. Femininities: Melancholia, Masquerade, and the Paternal Superego 72

4. Masculinities: Anxiety, Sadism, and the Intricacies of Object-Love 94

5. Kleinian Melanacholia 118

6. The Death Drive and Aggression 137

7. The Setting (Up) of Phantasy 162

Part Two

8. Modernist Cultures of the Death Drive 193

9. Framing the Fetish: To the Lighthouse: Ceci n'est pas un roman 218

10. Funereal Rites: Melancholia, Masquerade, and the Art of Biography in Lytton Strachey 273

11. Melancholia Reborn: Djuna Barnes's Styles of Grief 306

12. Melancholia, the New Negro, and the Fear of Modernity: Forms Sublime and Denigrated in Countee Cullen's Writings 343

Afterword: Modern(ist) Cultures of the Death Drive and the Melancholic Apparatus 386

Notes 395

Bibliography 451

Index 475

Über Autor(innen)

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