FRACTURED SUBJECT

The Fractured Subject explores the relationship between Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, focusing on the concept of the fractured subject and its development over modernity. It highlights the emergence of melancholia and possession as responses to the baroque loss of a cosmological horizon and examines Benjamins dream theory as a therapeutic, collective, and political gesture.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 15 July 2022
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD pod

The Fractured Subject explores the relationship between the works of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, focusing on the concept of the fractured subject. Betty Schulz establishes the emergence of this fractured subject in the Baroque period and connects it to Benjamins writings on sovereignty and myth. She also highlights the significance of melancholia and possession as responses to the loss of a cosmological horizon in the Baroque era. Schulz further explores Benjamins concept of the fractured subject in the nineteenth century through his Arcades Project, demonstrating how Benjamin conceptualizes its development over the course of modernity and analyzes the changes in memory and experience in modernity. Additionally, Schulz introduces the importance of the dream in Benjamins work and examines his dream theory, showing how it draws from Freud and how Benjamins concept of awakening serves as a therapeutic, collective, and political gesture that goes beyond the fractured subject.

ISBN-13: 9781538163368