Explores the literary aspects of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic tradition that has come to be known as British Object Relations psychoanalysis. This work focuses on the writing of Klein, Sharpe, Riviere, Isaacs, Winnicott, Milner, and Bion. It is useful for literary readers, but is also of interest to psychoanalytic practitioners.
The Poetics of Psychoanalysis explores the literary aspects of the twentieth-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. Giving a central place to literary and aesthetic concerns, it makes connections with particular works of literature and art. The Poetics of Psychoanalysis is aimed at literary readers, but will also be of interest to psychoanalytic practitioners.
This excellent study of British object-relations thoery has definitive chapters on Ella Freeman Sharpe, Joan Riviere, Melanie Klein, Susan Isaacs, Marion Milner. D.W. Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion, which constitute variations on themes that Mary Jacobus circles around again and again.
