The doctor laughingly tells Alvy that he needn't worry about that for years, and that he should concentrate on being happy, but neither the child nor the adult Alvy seems capable of heeding the doctor's advice, and the adult Alvy has been in analysis for fifteen years. ... Walter Benjamin, a twentieth century theorist of modernity, argued that a poem written by Charles Baudelaire describing his fleeting encounter with a beautiful woman in the street, typified modern life. ... The final line of the poem declares, "Oh you, who I could have loved, and you who knew it." ...

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