{"product_id":"the-destructive-element-british-psychoanalysis-and-modernism-9780415921602","title":"The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lyndsey Stonebridge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Reference\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFreud's account of the sublimated drives at work beneath the surfaces of advanced societies, alongside the modernist fictions of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, Woolf and others, both reflected and inaugurated a strain of modernism preoccupied with the darkest elements of the human psyche. In The Destructive Element Lyndsey Stonebridge examines the career and legacy of British psychoanalyst Melanie Klein as a lens through which to examine the 20th century's fascination with death drives, the sublimation of civilization's discontents and the socialization of children--fascinations that would surface throughout the cultural production of the West. At once cultural history and psychoanalytic theory, and a bold reformulation of the legacies of modernism, The Destructive Element is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Western tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46929944871063,"sku":"9780415921602","price":12484.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415921602.webp?v=1771603579","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-destructive-element-british-psychoanalysis-and-modernism-9780415921602","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}