Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist MelancholiaCultures of the Death Drive is a comprehensive guide to the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882 1960) and to developments in Kleinian theory to date. It is also an analysis and a demonstration of the distinctive usefulness of Klein's thought for understanding modernist literature and visual art. Esther S nchez Pardo examines the issues that the seminal discourses of psychoanalysis and artistic modernism brought to the fore in the