Essays about: "Melanie Klein"

Found 2 essays containing the words Melanie Klein.

  1. 1. The Devil Led Us to the Wrong Crib : Paranoid and Reparative Reading in Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Berfin Sekerci; [2020]
    Keywords : Attachment theory; Jeanette Winterson; Melanie Klein; mother-daughter relationship;

    Abstract : This essay analyzes the issues of attachment between Jeanette Winterson and her adoptive mother in the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. My argument is that the memoir demonstrates a movement from what Sedgwick calls the paranoid position of reading to the reparative position. READ MORE

  3. 2. Ignatius descending - A psychoanalytical reading of a confederacy of letters

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Mårten Bjertner; [2006]
    Keywords : Psychoanalytic; A confederacy of dunces; text as phallus ; Lacan;

    Abstract : Walker Percy writes, in the foreword of "A confederacy of dunces", “I hesitate to use the word comedy - though comedy it is - because that implies simply a funny book, and this novel is a great deal more than that …It is also sad. One never quite knows where the sadness comes from. READ MORE