Description
The Fractured Subject investigates the relationship of the work of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, centered around the concept of the fractured subject. Through a reading of Benjamin's work on sovereignty and myth, Betty Schulz establishes the emergence of this fractured subject in the Baroque and 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, Schulz delineates the persistence of this fractured subject, showing how Benjamin conceptualises its development over the course of modernity while analyzing the change of memory and experience in modernity. Finally, having introduced the importance of the dream in the Arcades Project and associated work, Schulz examines Benjamin's dream theory, establishing the ways it draws from Freud, as well as Benjamin's concept of awakening as a therapeutic, collective, political gesture that points beyond the fractured subject.
Author: Betty Schulz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 02/08/2023
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9781538163368
ISBN10: 1538163365
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Movements | Psychoanalysis
- Philosophy | Movements | Critical Theory
- Literary Criticism | European | German
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.