Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-302) and index.
1. Introduction -- Social decoding -- Psychological decoding -- Textual decoding -- 2. Correspondences versus beauty -- The romantic cycle -- The beauty cycle -- Metonymy prevails -- 3. Spleen and evil -- "Spleen and Ideal" -- The spleen cycle -- The cycle of evil -- 4. Romantic temperament and "Spleen and Ideal" -- The psychodynamics of experience -- The early art criticism -- The psychopoetics of "Spleen and Ideal" -- 5. Modernist imagination and the "Tableaux Parisiens" -- The later art criticism -- The introductory poems -- The street scenes -- The domestic scenes -- 6. Decoding and recoding in the prose poems -- Historical Others -- "Moral masochism" -- Historical masochism -- Borderline decoding -- Narcissistic recoding -- 7. The prose poem narrator -- Historicizing borderline narcissism -- Super-ego failure -- Ego disintegration -- Bohemia at the heart of bourgeois society -- Modernity as prostitution -- The prose poem narrator as borderline narcissist -- The prose poem narrator as programmer -- 8. Conclusion -- The metonymy of real reference and desire -- The historical emergence and dispersion of the imaginary -- The split structure of social life in modernity.
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Baudelaire, Charles,1821-1867-- Criticism and interpretation.
Baudelaire, Charles,1821-1867.
Baudelaire, Charles,1821-1867-- Critique et interprétation.
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
Baudelaire, Charles,(1821-1867)-- Critique et interprétation.
Baudelaire, Charles,(1821-1867)-- Psychologie.
Baudelaire, Charles,1821-1867
Baudelaire, Charles,1821-1867-- Criticism and interpretation.
Baudelaire, Charles.
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Modernism (Literature)-- France.
Poetry-- Psychological aspects.
Psychoanalysis and literature-- France.
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Modernisme (Littérature)-- France.
Psychanalyse dans la littérature.
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Littérature et société-- France-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.