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. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Subject |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. (OCoLC)fst00052359
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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Psychoanalysis and literature. (OCoLC)fst01081273
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01081277
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Other Form: |
Print version: Stewart, Elizabeth, 1961- Catastrophe and survival. New York ; London : Continuum, ©2010 9781441196323 (OCoLC)461276202 |
ISBN |
9781441151339 (electronic bk.) |
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1441151338 (electronic bk.) |
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