{"product_id":"cultures-of-the-death-drive-9780822330455","title":"Cultures of the Death Drive","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA comprehensive guide to the work of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882-1960) and to developments in Kleinian theory. It offers an analysis and a demonstration of the distinctive usefulness of Klein's thought for understanding modernist literature and visual art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCultures of the Death Drive\u003c\/i\u003e offers a sustained consideration of Kleinian psychoanalysis for literary reading. It will doubtless open up psychoanalytic literary criticism to new and unsettling perspectives. I expect this book to have a singular and important effect on contemporary intellectual life.”—Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e”\u003ci\u003eCultures of the Death Drive\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of great learning and original thought. I believe it will be an important source book on Klein for beginners and adepts alike.”—Fredric R. Jameson, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations of the Works of Melanie Klein x\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Anxieties and Their Vicissitudes 1\u003cbr\u003e Part One \u003cbr\u003e 1. Itineraries 23\u003cbr\u003e 2. Kleinian Metapsychology 55\u003cbr\u003e 3. Femininities: Melancholia, Masquerade, and the Paternal Superego 72\u003cbr\u003e 4. Masculinities: Anxiety, Sadism, and the Intricacies of Object-Love 94\u003cbr\u003e 5. Kleinian Melanacholia 118\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Death Drive and Aggression 137\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Setting (Up) of Phantasy 162\u003cbr\u003e Part Two \u003cbr\u003e 8. Modernist Cultures of the Death Drive 193\u003cbr\u003e 9. Framing the Fetish: To the Lighthouse: \u003ci\u003eCeci n'est pas un roman\u003c\/i\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e 10. Funereal Rites: Melancholia, Masquerade, and the Art of Biography in Lytton Strachey 273\u003cbr\u003e 11. Melancholia Reborn: Djuna Barnes's Styles of Grief 306\u003cbr\u003e 12. Melancholia, the New Negro, and the Fear of Modernity: Forms Sublime and Denigrated in Countee Cullen's Writings 343\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Modern(ist) Cultures of the Death Drive and the Melancholic Apparatus 386\u003cbr\u003e Notes 395\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 451\u003cbr\u003e Index 475","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406031823191,"sku":"9780822330455","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822330455.jpg?v=1730494307","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultures-of-the-death-drive-9780822330455","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}