{"product_id":"fractured-subject-1","title":"Fractured Subject","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Fractured Subject\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eArcades Project\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eArcades Project\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262053667160,"sku":"9781538163368","price":102.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781538163368.jpg?v=1769821226","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/fractured-subject-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}