Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's note -- Introduction -- Politics of images and body -- 1 Benjamin's 'world of universal and integral actuality' -- COMMEMORATION AND MISRECOGNITION -- BREAKS AND BLIND SPOTS IN READING -- THINKING-IN-IMAGES, THE BODY, AND AKTUALITÄT IN BENJAMIN'S WRITING -- IMAGES OF POLITICS-THE POLITICS OF IMAGES: READING MARX -- 2 'Body-and image-space' -- THE PASSAGE THROUGH 'BODY-AND IMAGE-SPACE' IN 'SURREALISM'Z -- 'BODY-AND IMAGE-SPACE' AND 'DIALECTICAL IMAGE' -- THE GENESIS OF 'BODY-AND IMAGE-SPACE' IN BENJAMIN'S WRITINGS -- FORGETTING AND REDEMPTION: THE PSYCHOANALYTIC REFORMULATION OF THE MESSIANIC -- 3 Communicating tubes -- THE ARTS OF EXISTENCE: ANTIQUITY AND MODERNITY -- PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHORS IN THEIR ARCHIVES -- THE END OF DISCOURSE AND THE RETURN OF LITERATURE -- LOST SIMILITUDE -- ORIGIN AND THE BODY IN HISTORY -- SCENE AND IMAGES OF HISTORY -- 4 Thought-images -- BENJAMIN'S CONCEPT OF IMAGES -- THOUGHT-IMAGES -- GEGENSTREBIGE FUGUNG: THE ANGEL OF HISTORY -- IMAGE-DESIRE AND THE TURN BACK -- Other-gender-readings -- 5 Towards a female dialectic of enlightenment -- THE PROBLEM OF IMAGINING AND REPRESENTING A FEMALE SUBJECT-POSITION -- 'DIALECTICAL IMAGE' AND GENDER DISCOURSE -- ANALOGIES IN BENJAMIN'S AND KRISTEVA'S THEORY… -- …AND DIFFERENCES: KRISTEVA AND THE TRIAD OF PSYCHOANALYSIS -- BENJAMIN: MYTH AND MODERNITY -- A READING OF 'THE ANGEL OF HISTORY' FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF WOMEN -- 6 From images to dialectical images -- 'UNGRASPED SYMBOLISM': THE ORIGINS OF A THINKING-IN-IMAGES -- 'HOW DID SAPPHO AND HER FRIENDS SPEAK?': LANGUAGE MAGIC AND GENDER DIFFERENCE -- THE 'MALE FIRST-BORN OF HIS WORK': CREATION AND PROCREATION -- 'FOR EVERY WOMAN HAS THE PAST AND IN ANY CASE NO PRESENT': WOMEN AS GUARDIANS OF THE THRESHOLD.

'DISTORTION INTO ALLEGORY': THE WHORE AS 'BODY- AND IMAGE-SPACE' FOR THE ALLEGORIES OF MODERNITY -- 7 The 'other' in allegory -- THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE 'OTHER' IN 'OTHER SPEECH' -- EMBODIMENT AND DISEMBODIMENT -- KNOWLEDGE AND ABYSS: THE CHARACTER OF ALLEGORY AS A FORM OF WRITING -- THE MODERN ALLEGORY AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS -- Memory and writing -- 8 From topography to writing -- THE SCENE OF MEMORY BETWEEN ARCHAEOLOGY AND WRITING -- THE TOPOGRAPHY OF DREAM AND WAKING -- READING TRACES VERSUS SECURING CLUES -- THE PASSAGEN: READING COLLECTIVE MEMORY TRACES -- SECURING THE CLUES OF A READING OF FREUD -- DISTORTED SIMILITUDE: THE LANGUAGE OF MEMORY AND THE MEMORY OF LANGUAGE -- 9 The reading that takes the place of translation -- THE WRITING OF EXISTENCE -- THE TWOFOLD FOREIGNNESS OF LANGUAGE -- THE RETURN OF THE FORGOTTEN MIMESIS -- BABEL AND LABYRINTH -- THE REVERSAL OF REVELATION INTO THE MESSIANIC -- DE MAN'S REJECTION OF THE MESSIANIC -- 10 Readability -- MEMORY AND WRITING -- IMAGES IN MNEMONIC ART -- READABILITY -- THE PICTURE-ATLAS OF EXPRESSIVE GESTURES: ABY WARBURG -- CORPOREAL AND PICTORIAL MEMORY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS -- DISTORTIONS, DIALECTICAL IMAGES, AND REDEMPTION -- 11 Non-philosophical amazement-writing in amazement -- BENJAMIN'S AMAZEMENT AS AN HISTORICO-PHILOSOPHICAL BOUNDARY CASE -- THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHY AFTER AUSCHWITZ: ADORNO -- BACHMANN'S 'WRITING IN AMAZEMENT' AS A LITERARY BOUNDARY CASE -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Index.