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Garma. The Psychoanalysis of Arthur Rimbaud.
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1. Garma. The Psychoanalysis of Arthur Rimbaud. In this work, the author through a study of parents, poems, life has attempted to show the different phases of the poet's libidinal development. He has remarked the efforts of the poet to save his virility and the conflict between the desire to save and the fear of saving. Rimbaud's father was indolent and brutal. He left his wife for long periods and finally after the birth of the last child (there were five, three of whom lived), he deserted her permanently. Madame Rimbaud was of peasant stock, a woman of iron and ice, a strict religious Catholic with no comprehension of nor affection for her children, two boys and a girl whom she reared in almost complete seclusion. Out of this family environment Arthur grew up an apparently meek, obedient child but in reality full of aggression, hatred and inferiority. Rimbaud began his studies at the age of eight and followed them through to his B.A. degree. He was always a brilliant student, especially of languages; he began his poetic production early. He had few friends and was generally disliked. He was a devout