Table of Contents

PART I: TRANSITIONS
1: Body Poetics: Ella Sharpe
1.1: 'Brownie' Sharpe and the Stuff of Dreams
1.2: Air Wars: Hamlet and the Magical Phallus
2: Stolen Goods: Joan Riviere
3: The Mirror of Theory: Klein's Books
PART II: MEDIATIONS
4: Magical Arts: The Poetics of Play
5: Flaying the Mind: Milner and the Myth of Marsyas
6: Communicating and Not Communicating: Wordsworth and Winnicott
PART III: TRANSFORMATIONS
7: Palinurus and the Tank: Bion's War
8: Prometheus on the Couch: The Language of Terror
9: Catastrophe in the Poppy Field: Bion's Aesthetics
10: The Unexpected: Bionic Woman

About the Author

Mary Jacobus has taught at Oxford, Cornell, and Cambridge, where she is currently Professor of English (Grace 2). She was formerly Anderson Chair of English and Women's Studies at Cornell University. Her work spans Romantic literature, feminist criticism and theory, and psychoanalysis.

Reviews

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.
*Modern Language Review, 102.4*