Catastrophe and survival : Walter Benjamin and psychoanalysis / Elizabeth Stewart.

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Stewart, Elizabeth, 1961-

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9781441151339
1441151338
1441196323
9781441196323
9781472542298
1472542290
9781441116833
1441116834
9781441109378
1441109374
1282590685
9781282590687
9786612590689
6612590688

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Catastrophe and survival.DDC classification:

838/.91209 22

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PT2603.E455 Z8915 2010eb

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Contents:

Walter Benjamin and martyrdom: Trauerspiel -- Benjamin and Lacan I. The saint and the Saint Homme (Sinthome) II. The post-catastrophic subject -- Transformative mimesis -- Walter Benjamin's "Mimesis" -- Benjamin, Klein and Kleinians, and the new thinking -- Benjamin and Susan: drawing, writing, and Schriftbild.

Summary: Catastrophe and Survival addresses a blind spot in Benjamin scholarship: namely the way that Benjamin's thoughts regarding mental space, the mind-body problem, and the individual's experience of the material object world make significant contact with post-Freudian psychoanalytic confrontations with similar issues. Recent work on Benjamin's representations of the individual subjected to modern shock draws basic correlations between Benjamin and Freud. Still lacking is a discussion of a possible dialogue between Benjamin and Lacan and an account of the historical connections between Benjamin's w.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.

Catastrophe and Survival addresses a blind spot in Benjamin scholarship: namely the way that Benjamin's thoughts regarding mental space, the mind-body problem, and the individual's experience of the material object world make significant contact with post-Freudian psychoanalytic confrontations with similar issues. Recent work on Benjamin's representations of the individual subjected to modern shock draws basic correlations between Benjamin and Freud. Still lacking is a discussion of a possible dialogue between Benjamin and Lacan and an account of the historical connections between Benjamin's w.