Table of Contents

Part 1 The phantasms of Eros: The noonday demon; Melencolia I; Melancholic Eros; The lost object; The phantasms of Eros. Part 2 In the world of Odradek: Freud or the absent object; Marx or the universal exposition; Baudelaire or the absolute commodity; Beau Brummel or the appropriation of unreality; Mme Panckoucke or the toy-fairy. Part 3 The word and the phantasm: Narcissus and Pygmalion; Eros at the mirror "Spiritus phantasticus"; Spirits of love; Between Narcissus and Pygmalion; The "joy that never ends". Part 4 The perverse image: Oedipus and the sphinx; The proper and the improper; The barrier and the fold.