Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. “His Day!”
Chapter 1. Overview: Rimbaud and Psychocriticism
Part II. “He is Affection and the Present”
Chapter 2. Defiance in “Les Poètes de Septans”
Chapter 3. Poem of the Uncanny: “Le Bateau Ivre”
Chapter 4. Figures of Desire in “Mémoire”
Part III. “It is this Present Age that has Failed!”
Chapter 5. What Happened in Babylone? “Le Coeur du Pitre”; Survival of the Object in “Qu’est-ce Pour Nous, Mon Coeur?”
Chapter 6. Synchronicity: “A Une Raison”; “Démocratie”
Part IV. “The Most Intense Music”
Chapter 7. The Child as Thaumaturge: “Après Le Déluge”
Chapter 8. Abreaction in Three Poems: “Honte”; “Angoisse”; “Aube”
Chapter 9. Fantasy and Reality: “Vies I, II, III”; “H”
Chapter 10. Killing Me Softly: “Conte”
Chapter 11. “Nocturne Vulgaire” and the Paranoid Position
Part V. “O Fecundity of the Mind and Immensity of the Universe!”
Chapter 12. “Génie”: Advent of the Ego-Ideal
Chapter 13. Narcissistic Gain in “Solde”
Part VI. “His Vision, His Vision!”
Chapter 14. Rimbaud’s Ontology: “Villes II”
Chapter 15. Sublimation in Une Saison en Enfer
Appendix. The Death of Rimbaud: “We Remember Him and He Travels on.”
Notes
Bibliography
Index