The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism

by Lyndsey Stonebridge

'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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333678389
• ISBN13: 9780333678381
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"