Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Sociopoetics of Modernism Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
	Social decoding	11
	Psychological decoding	17
	Textual decoding	30
2	Correspondences versus beauty	43
	The romantic cycle	43
	The beauty cycle	53
	Metonymy prevails	67
3	Spleen and evil	80
	"Spleen and Ideal"	80
	The spleen cycle	86
	The cycle of evil	96
4	Romantic temperament and "Spleen and Ideal"	111
	The psychodynamics of experience	111
	The early art criticism	116
	The psychopoetics of "Spleen and Ideal"	124
5	Modernist imagination and the "Tableaux Parisiens"	137
	The later art criticism	139
	The introductory poems	148
	The street scenes	157
	The domestic scenes	166
6	Decoding and recoding in the prose poems	177
	Historical Others	177
	"Moral masochism"	186
	Historical masochism	190
	Borderline decoding	197
	Narcissistic recoding	209
7	The prose poem narrator	221
	Historicizing borderline narcissism	221
	Super-ego failure	222
	Ego disintegration	230
	Bohemia at the heart of bourgeois society	236
	Modernity as prostitution	242
	The prose poem narrator as borderline narcissist	248
	The prose poem narrator as programmer	251
8	Conclusion	258
	The metonymy of real reference and desire	266
	The historical emergence and dispersion of the imaginary	267
	The split structure of social life in modernity	274
	Notes	278
	Select bibliography	296
	Index	303