The Poetics of Psychoanalysis
In the Wake of Klein
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 December 2005
- ISBN 9780199246366
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 242x163x22 mm
- Weight 628 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 13 halftones 0
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Short description:
The Poetics of Psychoanalysis explores the literary aspects of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic tradition that has come to be known as British Object Relations psychoanalysis. It focuses on the writing of Klein, Sharpe, Riviere, Isaacs, Winnicott, Milner, and Bion. Giving a central place to literary and aesthetic concerns, it makes connections with particular works of literature and art. The Poetics of Psychoanalysis is aimed at literary readers, but will also be of interest to psychoanalytic practitioners.
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The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein explores the literary aspects of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic tradition that has come to be known as British Object Relations psychoanalysis. Focusing on Melanie Klein's legacy to psychoanalysis between the 1930s and 1970s, it deals with major figures such as Riviere, Isaacs, Winnicott, Milner, and Bion, as well as Klein's contemporary, Ella Sharpe. Mary Jacobus breaks new ground by giving a central place to the literary and aesthetic concerns of the British Object Relations tradition. Paying close attention to writing that is often side-lined by literary critics and theorists, she makes fruitful connections with particular works of literature and art, along with pressing contemporary issues.
The three sections focus on the transitions, mediations, and transformations that took place in British Object Relations psychoanalysis as Klein's ideas were developed and transformed. Situating Kleinian thought in relation to later developments and differences, while making it accessible to non-psychoanalytic readers, The Poetics of Psychoanalysis argues against the separation of British and continental traditions and for the continuing links between psychoanalysis and aesthetics. Rather than applying psychoanalytic ideas to literature and aesthetics, the book traces the British Object Relations tradition as a form of proto-modernist discourse in its own right. Linked by a common thread of ideas and structured to reflect a roughly chronological trajectory, individual chapters can also be read as free-standing critical essays. Aimed at literary readers, this book will also be of interest to psychoanalytic practitioners and cultural theorists.
This excellent study of British object-relations thoery has definitive chapters on Ella Freeman Sharpe, Joan Riviere, Melanie Klein, Susan Isaacs, Marion Milner. D.W. Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion, which constitute variations on themes that Mary Jacobus circles around again and again.
Table of Contents:
PART I: TRANSITIONS
Body Poetics: Ella Sharpe
'Brownie' Sharpe and the Stuff of Dreams
Air Wars: Hamlet and the Magical Phallus
Stolen Goods: Joan Riviere
The Mirror of Theory: Klein's Books
PART II: MEDIATIONS
Magical Arts: The Poetics of Play
Flaying the Mind: Milner and the Myth of Marsyas
Communicating and Not Communicating: Wordsworth and Winnicott
PART III: TRANSFORMATIONS
Palinurus and the Tank: Bion's War
Prometheus on the Couch: The Language of Terror
Catastrophe in the Poppy Field: Bion's Aesthetics
The Unexpected: Bionic Woman
