Fractured Subject - Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud

An investigation of Benjamin's conception of the subject as fractured via a reading of Benjamin's use of Freud, this book engages Benjamin's writing on sovereignty and myth in the Baroque and analyzes these themes in the context of Benjamin's writing on the 19th century.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Baroque Sovereignty and the Fractured Subject
Chapter 2 - Melancholia, Possession, Critique
Chapter 3 - Beyond the Pleasure Principle in the Arcades
Chapter 4- The Types of the 19th century: Benjamin's Case Studies
Chapter 5 - Dreaming
Chapter 6 - Awakening
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Betty Schulz gained her PhD from the Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) after completing a Masters in Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex. Her PhD research was funded by the TECHNE consortium. She is currently preparing a postdoctoral research proposal on the concept of nature in contemporary continental Philosophy and Anthropology.

Summary

An investigation Walter Benjamin’s conception of the subject as fractured, via a reading of Benjamin’s use of Freud; the topics cover gender, dreams, memory, childhood and mental illness.

Product details

• Authors: BERNADETTE SCHULZ, Betty Schulz
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781538163368
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6336-8
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Founding Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Psychoanalytical & Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis