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1 online resource (239 pages) |
| Contents |
CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1: PSYCHOANALYTIC BENJAMIN; 1. WALTER BENJAMIN AND MARTYRDOM: TRAUERSPIEL; 2. BENJAMIN AND LACAN; PART 2: CULTURES OF MIMESIS; INTRODUCTION TO PART 2; 3. TRANSFORMATIVE MIMESIS; 4. WALTER BENJAMIN'S "MIMESIS"; 5. BENJAMIN, KLEIN AND KLEINIANS, AND THE NEW THINKING; PART 3: BENJAMINIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS; INTRODUCTION TO PART 3; 6. BENJAMIN AND SUSAN: DRAWING, WRITING, AND SCHRIFTBILD; CONCLUSION; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| 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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Print version record |
| Subject |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast |
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
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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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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441151339 |
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1441151338 |
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