Preface -- Introduction / Michael Payne -- I. Psycho-politics -- 1. 'Why war?' -- Margaret Thatcher and Ruth Ellis -- II. Death drive -- 3. 'Where does the misery come from?' : psychoanalysis, feminism and the event -- 4. Shakespeare and the death drive -- III. Returning to Klein -- 5. Negativity in the work of Melanie Klein -- 6. War in the nursery -- Interview with Jacqueline Rose -- Jacqueline Rose : a bibbliography, 1974-1992 / Nancy Weyant -- App. : intellectual inhibition and eating disorders / Melitta Schmideberg -- Index