The Defeat of Baudelaire
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The Defeat of Baudelaire: A Psychoanalytical Study of the Neurosis of Charles Baudelaire is a psychohistory of Charles Baudelaire by French psychiatrist and psychoanalysist René Laforgue (1894 - 1962).
Published in 1931, it is a psychoanalytic reading of the life and work of Baudelaire.
The nosographical category of failure neurosis was created and applied mainly in France, as a result of René Laforgue's writings. Psychopathologie de l'échec (The psychopathology of failure; 1941): "We thus speak of the failure of an individual's emotional life or social activity[. . .]. The person derives from the affective failure itself the strength and the voluptuousness that transforms the unhappiness into happiness.".
He used the concept in The defeat of Baudelaire; 1931), and in chapter eleven of Clinique psychanalytique (Clinical aspects of psychoanalysis; 1936/1984) he described it as a specific nosographical category. He was then criticized by Edward Glover in 1939 for following the current trend among French psychoanalysts of isolating multiple clinical syndromes without putting much effort into systematizing them into general categories. Although...
