Catastrophe and Survival: Walter Benjamin and Psychoanalysis

"Elizabeth Stewart's profound and original study of Benjamin transcends everything previously available on his relationship to psychoanalysis. The dialectics of Benjamin's intricate transfiguration of Melanie Klein and of Bion are made radiantly clear. This book is particularly useful for establishing both Benjamin's vision of Kafka and his effect, through Bion, on Samuel Beckett." Harold Bloom"