The poetics of psychoanalysis : in the wake of Klein /

'The Poetics of Psychoanalysis' explores the literary aspects of the 20th 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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobus, Mary
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Transitions
  • Body poetics: Ella Sharpe
  • Stolen goods: Joan Riviere
  • The mirror of theory: Klein's books
  • Mediations
  • Magical arts: the poetics of play
  • Flaying the mind: Milner and the myth of Marsyas
  • Communicating and not communicating: Wordsworth and Winnicott
  • Transformations
  • Palinurus and the tank: Bion's war
  • Prometheus on the couch: the language of terror
  • Catastrophe in the poppy field: Bion's aesthetics
  • Envoi
  • The unexpected: Bionic woman.