Joyce & Jung
Subtitle: The "Four Stages of Eroticism" In a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: August 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780820469133
Subjects: Women Authors; Literary Criticism; 1882-1941; Ireland; Joyce, James,; Knowledge; Portrait of the artist as a yo; Psychoanalysis and literature; Psychology; Sex in literature; Young men in literature
Description: "Joyce and Jung offers a provocatively original chapter-by-chapter analysis of Stephen Dedalus' psychosexual growth in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The author frames this within the Jungian soul-portrait gallery known as the "four stages of eroticism" in which Eve, Helen, Mary, and Sophia are the soul-portraits of Western civilization, drawing the collective eros into the psychic field to be witnessed as universal spectacle. In James Joyce's twentieth-century classic, Stephen's soul-portraits are the mother, the prostitute, the Virgin Mary, and the Bird-Girl."--Publisher's website.