What is it about?
This article is about Helene Cixous' narrative entitled Hyperdream and the story Cixous tells of Walter Benjamin's bed and how Cixous' mother came to be in possession of it. How the bed as object puts Cixous in relation to Benjamin is of psychoanalytical interest.
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Why is it important?
The article develops issues of authorial filiation by means of considering object relations and fantasy.
Perspectives
The article puts Cixous, Benjamin, Marguerite Duras, and Jacques Derrida into relation.
Herman Rapaport
Wake Forest University
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This page is a summary of: “I Develop a Flame for the Bed”: Walter Benjamin and Hélène Cixous, symplokē, January 2018, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.5250/symploke.26.1-2.0361.
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