Why War?: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie KleinOver the past decade, psychoanalysis has been a focus of continuing controversy for feminism, and at the centre of debates in the humanities about how we read literature and culture. In these essays, Jacqueline Rose continues her engagement with these issues while arguing for a shift of attention - from an emphasis on sexuality as writing to the place of the unconscious in the furthest reaches of or cultural and political lives. With essays on war, capital punishment and the dispute over seduction in relation to Freud, she opens up the field of psychopolitics. Finally in two extended essays on Melanie Klein and her critics, she suggests that it is time for a radical rereading of Klein's work. |
Contents
PsychoPolitics | 13 |
Margaret Thatcher and Ruth Ellis | 41 |
Where Does the Misery Come From? | 89 |
Shakespeare and the Death Drive | 110 |
Negativity in the Work of Melanie Klein | 137 |
War in the Nursery | 191 |
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Why War?: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein Jacqueline Rose No preview available - 1993 |
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