Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature - Exploring Individuation, Alchemy and Symbolism

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Roula-Maria Dib
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2020
• EAN: 9780367179168
• ISBN: 978-0-367-17916-8
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Literary studies: general, Analytical and Jungian psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology