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The Writing of Anxiety

Part of the Language, Discourse, Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230592025

ISBN: 978-1-349-28456-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 6, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: ‘Dreading Forward’: the Writing of Anxiety at Mid-Century

Stonebridge, Lyndsey

Pages: 1 –13

[In his famous 1915 essay, ‘Thoughts for the Times on War and Death’, Freud wrote about how war exposed the madness that lurked at the heart of the West’s illusions about what it meant to be civilized. As studies of modernism and trauma have demonstrated, that madness found eloquent and tortured...
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Chapter 2Anxiety at a Time of Crisis: Psychoanalysis and Wartime

Stonebridge, Lyndsey

Pages: 14 –32

[Some time in the autumn of 1939, somewhere in London, a woman sits bolt upright in her bed gripped by anxiety. She blinks into the darkness searching for some familiar shape that might pull her back from the abyss of her dream world into the real world. But it is black, pitch black. Not for the...
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Chapter 3The Childhood of Anxiety

Stonebridge, Lyndsey

Pages: 33 –54

[As we saw in the last chapter, psychoanalytic narratives about childhood anxiety found a new and powerful resonance in wartime. There is also a sense, however, in which children in this period come to represent the childhood of anxiety; as if the labours of constituting a world in which the...
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Chapter 4Bombs and Roses: the Writing of Anxiety in Henry Green’s Caught

Stonebridge, Lyndsey

Pages: 55 –74

[Roses are not generally thought to be objects of anxiety. They are objects of desire, or perhaps sometimes objects that arrest desire by their invitation to aesthetic contemplation, but only for the phobic could a rose really be said to be an occasion for dread. Writing during World War II,...
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Chapter 5Bombs, Birth and Trauma: Henry Moore and D.W. Winnicott

Stonebridge, Lyndsey

Pages: 75 –91

[Inez Holden’s painter friend was not the only one to note that the war had turned the world surreal in 1940s Britain. ‘No dream is worse than the reality in which we live’, thundered a special triple issue of the London Bulletin, the journal of British Surrealism in its call to arms against...
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Chapter 6The Writing of Post-War Guilt: Rose Macaulay and Rebecca West

Stonebridge, Lyndsey

Pages: 92 –114

[Writing in the wake of the Eichmann trial, and of the furore that had followed the publication of her controversial reports on the trial, Hannah Arendt perhaps had good reason to worry about the extent to which a cultural psychology of guilty feelings was interfering with the moral imperative to...
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Chapter 7Hearing Them Speak: Voices in Bion, Muriel Spark and Penelope Fitzgerald

Stonebridge, Lyndsey

Pages: 115 –134

[Visiting London just as the fires celebrating VJ day had died down in September 1945 Lacan, writing in his report, ‘La psychiatre anglaise et la guerre’, describes something if not precisely like an appetite for democracy, then a taste for a democratization of hierarchies which he thinks he has...

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