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Beattie, H.J. (1998). Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide. By Melissa Knox. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994, 185 pp.. Psychoanal. Rev., 85:471-475.

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(1998). Psychoanalytic Review, 85:471-475

Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide. By Melissa Knox. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994, 185 pp.

Hilary J. Beattie, Ph.D. Author Information

“Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long some day to feel…. Only one thing remains infinitely fascinating to me, the mystery of moods. To be master of these moods is exquisite, to be mastered by them more exquisite still. Sometimes I think that the artistic life is a long and lovely suicide, and am not sorry that it is so.” Thus wrote Oscar Wilde to a young male friend in 1886. As epigraph, in its complete form, this neatly encompasses the major themes of Melissa Knox's ambitious study, which uses largely psychoanalytic insights to illuminate the profound and self-destructive contradictions in Wilde's life and work.

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Her book is not a full-scale psychobiography but rather a collection of linked essays, each of which traces the ways in which psychosexual conflicts may have influenced, and been reflected in, certain major works. Thus in Chapter 1 she attempts to reconstruct the supposedly sedu

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