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994244
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b748614
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Stewart, Elizabeth,1961-
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| Title & Author
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Catastrophe and survival : : Walter Benjamin and psychoanalysis /\ Elizabeth Stewart.
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| Publication Statement
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New York ;London :: Continuum,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (228 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1441109374
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: 1441116834
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: 1441196323
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: 1472542290
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: 9781441109378
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: 9781441116833
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: 9781441151339
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: 9781441196323
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: 9781472542298
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9781441196323
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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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Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940
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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.
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
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| Dewey Classification
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838/.91209
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PT2603.E455Z8915 2010eb
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