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Baudelaire and the Identity of the Self
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 47, Number 3, September 2014
- pp. 159-173
- 10.1353/mos.2014.0029
- Article
- Additional Information
Baudelaire points to “le conseil judiciaire,” the legal guardianship, as the central event that defined his self and the course of his life. Relying on studies of memory in neuroscience and on Baudelaire’s own views of memory and imagination, this essay studies the concept of the Baudelairean self.