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    The Fractured Subject: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud

    The Fractured Subject by Schulz, Betty;

    Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud

    Series: Founding Critical Theory;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 23 July 2026
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781538163382
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages224 pages
    • Size 228.6x152.4 mm
    • Language English
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    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.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements
    Introduction
    Chapter 1 - Baroque Sovereignty and the Fractured Subject
    Chapter 2 - Melancholia, Possession, Critique
    Chapter 3 - Beyond the Pleasure Principle in the Arcades
    Chapter 4- The Types of the 19th century: Benjamin's Case Studies
    Chapter 5 - Dreaming
    Chapter 6 - Awakening
    Bibliography
    About the Author

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