Catastrophe and Survival: Walter Benjamin and Psychoanalysis

Catastrophe and Survival: Walter Benjamin and Psychoanalysis

by Elizabeth Stewart
Catastrophe and Survival: Walter Benjamin and Psychoanalysis

Catastrophe and Survival: Walter Benjamin and Psychoanalysis

by Elizabeth Stewart

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Overview

'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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441116833
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/19/2012
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Stewart is Associate Professor of English, Yeshiva University, New York, USA. She teaches courses in European modernism, post-colonial literature, literature and philosophy, and literary and cultural theory. She is the translator and editor of Lacan in the German-Speaking World (SUNY 2004).

Table of Contents

PART I: PSYCHOANALYTIC BENJAMIN Ch. 1: Walter Benjamin and Martyrdom: Trauerspiel Ch. 2: The Saint and the Saint Homme (Sinthome): Benjamin and Lacan (Pt.1) Ch. 3: The Post-Catastrophic Subject: Benjamin and Lacan (Pt. 2) PART II: CULTURES OF MIMESIS Ch. 4: Transformative Mimesis Ch. 5: Mimesis and Catastrophe: Walter Benjamin and Psychoanalysis PART III: BENJAMINIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS Ch. 6: Survival: Walter Benjamin and Susan; Phantasmagoria and "Cocoon" Epilogue

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