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Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature argues for the centrality of Carl Jung's theory of individuation and alchemy in modernist poetics. Through analysis of the uses of a mythic method in modernist literary works, the book develops a related alchemical model which serves to expand understanding of modernist uses of language.
The book is an innovative exploration of modernist literary creativity under a Jungian lens, spanning both the literary and scholarly Jungian field. The literary works of Hilda Doolittle, James Joyce and W.B Yeats are read in the light of Jung's central theme of an 'alchemical marriage' with attempts at developing a related alchemical model, a Jungian poetics, which serves to expand a reader's understanding of modernist uses of language. This provides a fresh new lens through which modernist literature is viewed and seeks to revaluate the role of Jung in the humanities, namely in the field of modernist literature, an area from which Jung has long been shunned.
This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of literature, modernism, psychoanalysis, gender studies, Jungian psychology, depth psychology, literary theory, and cultural studies.
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List of contents
1. Introduction: The Return of Jung. 2. Jung, Psychoanalysis, and the Great Divide. 3. Literary Jung. 4. Alchemy as Poetic Metaphor in H.D.'s
Trilogy. 5. Between Yeats and Jung: The Poetics of a Jungian Paradigm. 6. Alchemy of the Word in Joyce's
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
Ulysses, and
Finnegans Wake. 7. Conclusion.
About the author
Roula-Maria Dib is an Assistant Professor of English at the American University in Dubai, UAE. She is also a member of the
International Association for Jungian Studies and the
Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies.
Summary
Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature argues for the centrality of Carl Jung’s theory of individuation and alchemy in modernist poetics. Through analysis of the uses of a mythic method in modernist literary works, the book develops a related alchemical model which serves to expand understanding of modernist uses of language.
