Catastrophe And Survival Walter Benjamin And Psychoanalysis

Download or read book Catastrophe and Survival: Walter Benjamin and Psychoanalysis written by Elizabeth Stewart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how Benjamin's thoughts regarding the individual's experience of the material world make significant contact with post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory. 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).