Cultures of the Death DriveCultures of the Death Drive is a comprehensive guide to the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (18821960) and to developments in Kleinian theory to date. It is also an analysis and a demonstration of the distinctive usefulness of Kleins thought for understanding modernist literature and visual art. Esther Snchez Pardo examines the issues that the seminal discourses of psychoanalysis and artistic modernism brought to the fore in the early