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The Fractured Subject - Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud (Hardcover)
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The Fractured Subject - Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud (Hardcover)
Series: Founding Critical Theory
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This book investigates the relationship of the work of Walter
Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, centered around Benjamin's fractured
subject. Through a reading of Benjamin's work on sovereignty and
myth, it establishes the emergence of this fractured subject in the
Baroque. It then links these themes to 'Mourning and Melancholia'
and two of Freud's case studies, showing that melancholia and
possession emerge as two responses to the baroque loss of a
cosmological horizon. Turning to Benjamin's work on the nineteenth
century in the Arcades Project, it then delineates the persistence
of this fractured subject, showing how Benjamin conceptualises its
development over the course of modernity. Investigating the change
of memory and experience in modernity, it discusses the resurfacing
of melancholia as spleen, and the refracting of the fractured
subject into types. Having introduced the importance of the dream
in the Arcades Project and associated work, the book then examines
Benjamin's dream theory, establishing the ways it draws from
Freud's dream interpretation. Finally, it examines Benjamin's
concept of awakening as a therapeutic, collective, political
gesture that points beyond the fractured subject.
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