In this brief article Kucera offers certain conclusions regarding manifestations of regression in the poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Mallarmé, and Jarry. (The evidence for these conclusions, one assumes, will be made available in more detailed studies about which the author hints.) He defines the artist as an individual subject to pregenital fixations and expressing in his artistic creation the fantasies of his undissolved Oedipus complex, thereby achieving a delayed adjustment. The author distinguishes between epic and lyrical poetry. The former is related to action, involving activity of a sexual,