You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
Mary Jacobus says that her approach to her subject matter—specifically, Klein's legacy to psychoanalytic writing between the late 1920s and the late 1970s—is ‘primarily that of a literary critic’; her focus is ‘on its making and shaping, its literary elements and aesthetic concerns, as well as its informing ideas’ (p. v).
She is, of course, a literary critic, and a professor of English at Cambridge, but one with a quite unusual grounding in psychoanalytic thinking. She approaches her main subjects—Sharpe, Riviere, Klein, Milner, Winnicott and Bion—with a