Lectures and writings on madness, language, and literature. Madness and civilization ; Madness and civilization (presentation given at the Club Tahar Haddad, Tunis, April 1967) ; Madness and society ; Literature and madness (madness in Baroque theater and the Theater of Artaud) ; Literature and madness (madness in the work of Raymond Roussel) ; Phenomenological experience: experience in Bataille ; The new methods of literary analysis ; Literary analysis ; Structuralism and literary analysis (presentation given at the Club Tahar Haddad, Tunis, February 4, 1967) ; [The extralinguistic and literature] ; Literary analysis and structuralism ; Bouvard and Pécuchet: the two temptations ; The search for the absolute.