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Author Stewart, Elizabeth, 1961-

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

Publication Info. New York ; London : Continuum, [2010]
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Description 1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.
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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Subject Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. (OCoLC)fst00052359
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Psychoanalysis and literature. (OCoLC)fst01081273
Psychoanalysis and philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01081277
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Stewart, Elizabeth, 1961- Catastrophe and survival. New York ; London : Continuum, ©2010 9781441196323 (OCoLC)461276202
ISBN 9781441151339 (electronic bk.)
1441151338 (electronic bk.)
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