Why War?: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein

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 Klein's work.

Author: Jacqueline Rose
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 12/08/1993
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.56w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9780631189244
ISBN10: 0631189246
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Movements | Psychoanalysis

About the Author
Jaqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Her numerous publications include The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction (1984) and The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991).