Cultures of the Death Drive : Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia

Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations of the Works of Melanie Klein x Introduction: Anxieties and Their Vicissitudes 1(22) PART ONE Itineraries 23(32) Kleinian Metapsychology 55(17) Femininities: Melancholia, Masquerade, and the Paternal Superego 72(22) Masculinities: Anxiety, Sadism, and the Intricacies of Object-Love 94(24) Kleinian Melancholia 118(19) The Death Drive and Aggression 137(25) The Setting (Up) of Phantasy 162(31) PART TWO Modernist Cultures of the Death Drive 193(25) Framing the Fetish: To the Lighthouse: Ceci n'est pas un roman 218(55) Funereal Rites: Melancholia, Masquerade, and the Art of Biography in Lytton Strachey 273(33) Melancholia Reborn: Djuna Barnes's Styles of Grief 306(37) Melancholia, the New Negro, and the Fear of Modernity: Forms Sublime and Denigrated in Countee Cullen's Writings 343(43) Afterword: Modern(ist) Cultures of the Death Drive and the Melancholic Apparatus 386(9) Notes 395(56) Bibliography 451(24) Index 475