| Description |
1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast |
| Subject |
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
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441151339 |
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1441151338 |
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1441196323 |
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9781441196323 |
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9781472542298 |
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1472542290 |
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9781441116833 |
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1441116834 |
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9781441109378 |
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1441109374 |
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1282590685 |
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9781282590687 |
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9786612590689 |
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6612590688 |
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