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Book SynopsisJoyce & Jung offers a uniquely feminist poststructuralist and post-Jungian psychoanalytic analysis of Stephen Dedalus's psychosexual growth in James Joyce's twentieth-century classic A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Hiromi Yoshida relocates Stephen's growth within the Jungian soul-portrait gallery, known as the four stages of eroticism, in which Eve, Helen, Mary, and Sophia are collective anima projections. Throughout this dazzling lyrical analysis of poetic identity formation, the mother, the prostitute, the Virgin Mary, and the Bird-Girl are celebrated as Stephen Dedalus's ironically experienced anima women, who enable his achievement of cross-dressed lyric authority.
Trade Review“Hiromi Yoshida’s innovative approach to
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man demonstrates how Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus reaches a heightened state of creativity through his gradual integration of feminine elements into his psyche. Her detailed afterword to the new edition of
Joyce & Jung adds lucid insights to this important critical study.”—Nancy Bombaci, Associate Professor of Writing and Literature, Mitchell College, New London, Connecticut
“Fifteen years after the original publication of Hiromi Yoshida’s
Joyce & Jung, the arrival of the new, updated, significantly expanded edition is sure to be welcomed by fans of both James Joyce and Carl Jung. The supplementary bibliographic references are especially useful, and the significantly expanded analysis of Stephen Dedalus’s psychosexual development beyond Jung’s ‘four stages of eroticism’ will continue to provoke scholarly discussion for a very long time indeed.”—William Hutchings, Professor of Literature, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Table of ContentsList of Tables – List of Illustrations – Foreword to the First Edition – Preface to the Second Edition – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Introduction – The Mother: Baby Tuckoo’s Encounter with the Hermaphrodite of Infant Consciousness – The Prostitute: The "Obscene Scrawl" of Stephen Foetus – The Virgin: Saint Stephen’s Temptation at the "Breast of the Infants" – The Bird- Girl: Stephen Mercurius and the Flight to Daedalus – A Portrait: Stephen’s Annunciation, or the Artist’s Cross-Dressed Soul – Afterword – Bibliography – Index.
