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This book is an exploration of the internal world of James Joyce with particular emphasis on his being born into his parents' grief at the loss of their firstborn son, offering a new perspective on his emotional difficulties. The book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and students of English literature.
List of contents
Introduction, 1. Freud. His lost brother and ‘dead mother’, 2. Images of Joyce. ‘This bizarre and wonderful creature’, 3. The ‘Dead Mother’. ‘Dark Lady’, ‘ghoul, chewer of corpses!', 4. Joyce’s Father—The Only Child. The only son of an only son of an only son, 5. Guilt and Persecution. Intrusive identification and the world of the claustrum, 6. Imagination vs Fantasy. The Ineluctability of the Proleptic Imagination, 7. Joyce: Prose Poet. Language, music and emotion, 8. Gogarty: The Lost Brother. James Joyce, ‘Buck Mulligan’ and the Martello Tower, 9. The Sorrow of Ulysses. ‘Deathflower of the potato blight on her breast.’, 10. Medievalism to Modernity. His Own Book of Kells, 11. Finnegans Wake. The Poetry of the Dream. ‘Quiet takes back her folded fields. Tranquille thanks. Adew’.
About the author
Mary Adams is a psychoanalyst working in London. She is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Association and was a training analyst for the Association of Child Psychotherapists. She worked as a psychiatric social worker in London and Boston (USA). She was Editor of The Journal of the British Association of Psychotherapists (1999-2005).
Summary
This book is an exploration of the internal world of James Joyce with particular emphasis on his being born into his parents’ grief at the loss of their firstborn son, offering a new perspective on his emotional difficulties. The book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and students of English literature.
