The woman metaphor

imagination and creation in Walter Benjamin

  • Patrícia Lavelle
Keywords: metaphor, imagination, creation, images of women, Walter Benjamin

Abstract

Starting from the interpretive direction indicated by Arendt, which emphasizes the role of metaphor in Walter Benjamin's thought, this article examines a metaphorical complex in particular: one that links a series of female images to the faculty to produce images. Such metaphorical configurations, which refer to neo-kantian sources of Benjamin's thought, stand out in Berlin's childhood around 1900, and in “After conclusion”, a short prose that presents artistic creation in an erotic metaphor.

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Published
2020-09-26