The Destructive Element : British Psychoanalysis and Modernism

In the destructive element immerse. These words from Joseph Conrads Stein in Lord Jim cast a shadow over twentieth-century literature. At the same time, Freuds bleak prognosis of cultures 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 cultures discontents by returning to British psychoanalysis and second-wave modernism.