Joyce and Lacan - Reading, Writing, and Psychoanalysis

What happens when the intellectual giant of twentieth-century literature, James Joyce, is made an object of consideration and cause of desire by the intellectual giant of modern psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan?¿¿¿¿¿¿

This is what¿Joyce and Lacan¿explores, in the three closely interrelated areas of reading, writing, and psychoanalysis, by delving into Joyce's own relationship with psychoanalysis in his lifetime.

List of contents

1. James Joyce, In and Out of Analysis 2. Was Joyce Mad? Not by a Transparent Sheet... 3. From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Sinthome 4. Joyce's Knots: Death and Sex Before the Wake 5. Waking the Read: The Indelible Sigla of Finnegans Wake 6. The Object Meaning Raised to the Dignity of the Thing

About the author

Daniel Bristow received his doctorate from the University of Manchester in 2014. His writing is widely published and covers a range of topics in literature, theory, and psychoanalysis. He is co-founder of the Everyday Analysis Collective.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Bristow, Bristow Daniel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.01.2018
• EAN: 9781138587229
• ISBN: 978-1-138-58722-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; English, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Analytical and Jungian psychology, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Jungian, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis