James Joyce and the Jesuits

Fresh close readings and psychoanalytic theory demonstrate how Joyce turned practices he learned from the Jesuits into challenges for readers.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The disturbed mind; 3. Beyond the Uncle Charles Principle; 4. The labour of reading: Joyce with Klein; 5. Kleinian Aesthetics; 6. Discernment and indifference; 7. It was pitch dark almost; 8. Substantiation; 9. Conclusion: The transference; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Michael Mayo is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. His research focuses on the experience of modernity, using psychoanalytic theory to understand how writers used narrative to negotiate the social crises at the turn of the twentieth century. His publications include work on James Joyce, twentieth-century theology, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Summary

Using Joyce's religious education and psychoanalytic theories of depression and paranoia, the book opens radical new possibilities for reading Joyce. The book appeals to Joyce scholars and scholars interested in religion and Kleinian theory, as well as any general reader interested in Joyce.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Mayo, Michael (University of Oxford) Mayo, Mayo Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108495295
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49529-5
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; FICTION / Religious, RELIGION / Spirituality, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, FICTION / Christian / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Religion / Christianity, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Christianity, Religion & beliefs, Religious issues & debates, Literature: history & criticism, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, Religion and beliefs, Literature: history and criticism, Religious and spiritual fiction, Religious & Spiritual Fiction, Relating to Christian people and groups, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Religious issues and debates, Educational: Religious studies: Christianity, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis