[Man and the spectacle. Notes on the psychologic reactions of the spectator]

The comprehension of the spectator's psychology is difficult because of the fact that one should first analyse what is peculiar to the spectacle's creator. Louis-Ferdinand Celine presents the advantage to be at the same time an ingenious litterary creator and a ballets' passionate spectator. The author's purpose consists in demonstrating that the writer's interest in ballets is determined by the fight against death's anxiety, which is present in his whole work. On the basis of the freudian notions of "Vorlust" and "Endlust" he comes to the conclusion that the "compensatories" phantasies which are composing the new reality proposed by the creator rejoin the spectator's desirs which vary nevertheless from one person to another.