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Book Synopsis* Controversial appraisal of the role of the unconscious in our political lives* Deals with the Thatcher phenomenon* Urges radical re--reading of Melanie Klein* Author enjoys celebrity for her controversial book on Sylvia Plath. .
Trade Review"In eloquent critiques, Rose explicates the complex, contradictory relations between gender and fantasy, feminism and psychoanalysis, and the dialogue initiated here certainly deserves a wide audience."
Anthony Elliott, Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPreface viii
Introduction 1
Michael Payne
Part I Psycho-Politics 13
1 ‘Why War?’ 15
2 Margaret Thatcher and Ruth Ellis 41
Part II The Death Drive 87
3 ‘Where Does the Misery Come From?’ – Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Event 89
4 Shakespeare and the Death Drive 110
Part III Returning to Klein 135
5 Negativity in the Work of Melanie Klein 137
6 War in the Nursery 191
An Interview with Jacqueline Rose 231
Jacqueline Rose: A Bibliography, 1974–1992 256
Nancy Weyant
Appendix: Intellectual Inhibition and Eating Disorders 262
Melitta Schmideberg
Index 271
