Why War?

Jaqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Her numerous publications include The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction (1984) and The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991).

• Preface viiiIntroduction 1 Michael PaynePart I Psycho-Politics 131 ‘Why War?’ 152 Margaret Thatcher and Ruth Ellis 41Part II The Death Drive 873 ‘Where Does the Misery Come From?’ – Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Event 894 Shakespeare and the Death Drive 110Part III Returning to Klein 1355 Negativity in the Work of Melanie Klein 1376 War in the Nursery 191An Interview with Jacqueline Rose 231Jacqueline Rose: A Bibliography, 1974–1992 256 Nancy WeyantAppendix: Intellectual Inhibition and Eating Disorders 262Melitta SchmidebergIndex 271

"In eloquent critiques, Rose explicates the complex, contradictory relations between gender and fantasy, feminism and psychoanalysis, and the dialogue initiated here certainly deserves a wide audience." Anthony Elliott, Times Higher Education Supplement