Catastrophe and Survival Walter Benjamin and Psychoanalysis [Paperback]

Elizabeth Stewartis 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).

PART I: PSYCHOANALYTIC BENJAMINCh. 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