ABSTRACT
Even when quite a child I felt two conflicting sensations in my heart: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. That, indeed, was the mark of a neurasthenic idler. (Baudelaire, My Heart Laid Bare. 1977, p. 50) "Postmodernism," the term used to describe the manneristic
70 search for origins, once denied but now tolerated, and the reasons the avant-garde tends to ignore origins in the first place are of the greatest psychod ynamic interest.
