Language, Discourse, Society: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism

Stonebridge, Lyndsey

'In the destructive element immerse.' These words from Joseph Conrad's Stein in Lord Jim cast a shadow over twentieth-century literature. At the same time, Freud's bleak prognosis of culture's discontents left a psychoanalysis with a legacy that found one of its most profound realisations in the play-rooms of British child psychoanalysis. In this book, Lyndsey Stonebridge offers a new perspective on the history of our fascination with culture's discontents by returning to British psychoanalysis and second-wave modernism.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1998-07-19

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780333678381

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26721-7

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 210