Why War?

Psychoanalysis, Politics, and the Return to Melanie Klein

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by Jacqueline Rose,

Edited by Harold Schweizer

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published December 1993, 288 pages, paper

ISBN 0631189246

Now available only as a print-on-demand title

With essays on war, capital punishment and the dispute over seduction in relation to Freud, the author opens up the field of psychopolitics. Finally in two extended essays on Melanie Klein and her critics, she suggests that it is time for a radical rereading of Klein's work.