Catastrophe and Survival: Walter Benjamin and Psychoanalysis

Shows how Benjamin''s thoughts regarding the individual''s experience of the material world make significant contact with post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

Elizabeth Stewart is 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).