"The figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century unsettles and disturbs. This book employs a range of material biographical, literary and historical to chart some of the surprising and unanticipated crossovers between womens writing and early psychoanalysis in the y…
The figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century unsettles and disturbs. This book employs a range of material - biographical, literary and historical - to chart some of the surprising and unanticipated crossovers between women's writing and early psychoanalysis in t…
As striking, counter-intuitive and distasteful as the combination of children and anxiety may seem, some of the most popular children's classics abound in depictions of traumatic relationships, bloody wars and helpless heroes. This book draws on Freudian and Lacanian anxiety mod…