Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis

This is the first book to apply the principles of schizoanalysis to literary history and cultural studies. By resituating psychoanalysis in its socio-economic and cultural context this framework provides a new and illuminating approach to Baudelaire''s poetry and art criticism. Professor Holland demonstrates the impact of military authoritarianism and the capitalist market (as well as Baudelaire''s much-discussed family circumstances) on the psychology and poetics of the writer who abandoned his romantic idealism in favor of a modernist cynicism that has characterized modern culture ever since.