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The Fractured Subject: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud

Author(s) : Betty Schulz

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The absence of a sustained exploration of Benjamin’s relationship to Freud has long felt like a serious and puzzling gap in Anglophone scholarship on the great German writer. Lucid, tightly conceived and replete with bold readings and insights, The Fractured Subject addresses this gap admirably, opening up a rich and fascinating seam of future discussion and debate.
Josh Cohen, Goldsmiths, University of London

From melancholy to the dream-work and through death drive to awakening, Schulz's book tracks the insistent but elusive presence of Freud in Benjamin's work. Her sustained scrutiny of Benjamin's debts and resistances to Freud and psychoanalysis reveals previously unsuspected analytic and therapeutic dimensions to his thought and criticism.
Howard Caygill, Kingston University, London