Why War?: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein (Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory)

by Jacqueline Rose

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Over 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 Kleina s work.
  • ISBN10 0631189246
  • ISBN13 9780631189244
  • Publish Date 7 October 1993
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Imprint Blackwell Publishers
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 288
  • Language English