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Zusatztext Whilst the theoretical works of Walter Benjamin have certainly beenthought in association with psychoanalysis before, such a sustained and thoroughstudy of their convergence as it is supplied by Elizabeth Stewart is a rare andnotable achievement. Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Shows how Walter Benjamin's thoughts regarding the individual's experience of the material world make significant contact with post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory. Vorwort Shows how Benjamin's thoughts regarding the individual's experience of the material world make significant contact with post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory.Shows how Benjamin's thoughts regarding the individual's experience of the material world make significant contact with post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
