Joyce and Jung
Subtitle: the "four stages of eroticism" in A portrait of the artist as a young man
By: Hiromi Yoshida.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780820469133
Subjects: Joyce, James, 1882-1941.; Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Knowledge -- Psychology.; Jung, C. G. 1875-1961.; Psychoanalysis and literature -- Ireland.; Young men in literature.; Sex 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.