An Unprecedented Deformation: marcel proust and the sensible ideas -- An Unprecedented Deformation: marcel proust and the sensible ideas -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "Seek? More Than That: Create." -- Chapter 1. Nature: Variations on the Theme "Why are there several samples of each thing?" -- I. NATURE AND ONTOLOGY -- II. MELODY AND SPECIES -- III. VOYANCE -- IV. "GENERALITY OF THINGS" -- Chapter 2. The Mythical Time of the Ideas: Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze as Readers of Proust -- I. THE CHIASM BETWEEN EMPIRICAL AND TRANSCENDENTAL -- II. DIVERGENCES: ART AS THE TRUTH OF THE SENSIBLE FOR MERLEAU-PONTY AND DELEUZE -- III. CONVERGENCES: THE SENSIBLE IDEA OF COMBRAY -- IV. THE BODY OF THE IDEAS -- Chapter 3. Deformation and Recognition: Proust in the "Reversal of Platonism" -- I. THE ADVENTURES OF DEFORMATION -- II. YET WHICH "REVERSAL OF PLATONISM"? -- III. DELEUZE AND THE "MODEL OF RECOGNITION" -- IV. RECOGNITION WITHOUT RESEMBLANCE: PROUST'S "BAL DE TÊTES" -- Chapter 4. "The Words of the Oracle": Merleau-Ponty and the "Philosophy of Freudianism" -- I. A NEW INTEREST FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS -- II. FREUDIANISM AS A PHILOSOPHY OF THE FLESH -- III. ASSOCIATION AS INITIATION -- IV. FETISHISM -- V. SYMBOLIC, ONEIRIC AND POETIC -- Chapter 5. How Can One Recognize What One Did Not Know?: Mnemosyne and the Art of the Twentieth Century -- I. "'I DID NOT KNOW' AND 'I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN IT'" -- II. RECOLLECTION AND IDEA -- III. RECOLLECTION AND THE "PURE PAST" -- IV. THE HISTORY OF MNEMOSYNE -- V. THE FACULTY OF SENSIBLE IDEAS AND BLIND RECOGNITION -- Appendix: Love and Music: Theme and Variations -- I. "THE THEME IS PRESENTED AND PURSUED BY VARIATIONS" -- II. THE INSTITUTION OF A SENTIMENT: "ILLUSION OR PHENOMENON?" -- III. "THE LOVE OF ALBERTINE DIFFERS FROM THE PRECEDING LOVES AS THE SEPTET DOES FROM THE SONATA" -- IV. SYMBOLIC MATRICES.

V. "WHAT IS TO BE REALIZED IS A DISPOSSESSION" -- Notes -- Index.