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10%OFFEsther Sánchez-Pardo - Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia - 9780822330455 - V9780822330455
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Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia

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Description for Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia Paperback. A 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. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 504 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: JFC; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680.
Cultures of the Death Drive is a comprehensive guide to the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882–1960) and to developments in Kleinian theory to date. It is also an analysis and a demonstration of the distinctive usefulness of Klein’s thought for understanding modernist literature and visual art. Esther Sánchez-Pardo examines the issues that the seminal discourses of psychoanalysis and artistic modernism brought to the fore in the early twentieth century and points toward the uses of Kleinian thinking for reconceptualizing the complexities of identity and social relations today.

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A valuable contribution to psychoanalytic theory, gender and sexuality studies, and the study of representation in literature and the visual arts, Cultures of the Death Drive is a necessary resource for those interested in the work of Melanie Klein.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Series
Post-Contemporary Interventions
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822330455
SKU
V9780822330455
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Esther Sánchez-Pardo
Esther Sánchez-Pardo is Associate Professor of English at Complutense University in Madrid. She has written and edited numerous books in Spanish.

Reviews for Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia
“Cultures of the Death Drive 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 ”Cultures of the Death Drive is a work of great learning and ... Read more

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