James Joyce’s Writing and Psychoanalysis
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:14th Dec '26
£36.99
This title is due to be published on 14th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
James Joyce’s Writing and Psychoanalysis brings together leading Joycean scholars and internationally renowned Lacanian clinical psychoanalysts to evaluate the significance of Joyce’s writing for contemporary culture and practice.
Joycean scholars, together with psychoanalysts, critically engage with the importance of Joyce’s writing in conceptualising the unconscious, subjectivity, the Oedipal drama, madness, Laplanche’s maternal seduction theory, mourning, Lacan’s elaboration of the sinthome as a special type of symptom, Joyce’s anti-colonialism, and essays encompassing Joyce with Kant and Tolkien. Drawing from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, Exiles, Joyce’s poetry, and aspects of his life story, this book is essential reading in discerning the impact of Joyce’s writing, as pure artistry, on literary theory and psychoanalytic theory and practice.
James Joyce’s Writing and Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training as well as academics and scholars of psychoanalytic theory, literary theory, arts and liberal arts studies, philosophy, Irish studies, history, gender studies, feminist studies, linguistics, cultural studies, and French and English literature.
“James Joyce’s Writing and Psychoanalysis,drawing on the work of leading scholars of Joyce and practicing psychoanalysts, demonstrates just how alive and pertinent Joyce remains for considerations of the symptom, the subject, and the endless inventions of the unconscious in the clinic of psychoanalysis. Written at the confluence of psychoanalysis and literary scholarship, these essays adumbrate Joyce’s complex relation to psychoanalysis alongside Freud’s and Lacan’s historic contributions - creating rich trajectories of scholarship for our time. This is a stunning collection of interdisciplinary essays.”
Annie G. Rogers, psychoanalyst, artist, and author
“Lacan turned to Joyce because literature, at its most uncompromising, pushes psychoanalysis to think beyond its own categories. This superb collection honours that long conversation with real intellectual nerve and creative ambition — moving from the sinthome to the subaltern, mourning to the maternal, through pairings (Joyce and Kant, Joyce and Tolkien) as illuminating as they are unexpected, without letting either discipline overtake the other or settle for easy answers. Rigorous and exciting, this volume is essential for Joyceans rethinking method, and for clinicians for whom Joyce's formal daring speaks urgently to symptom, structure, and language.”
Karen Zumhagen-Zekplé, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Tulane University
“James Joyce’s Writing and Psychoanalysis,drawing on the work of leading scholars of Joyce and practicing psychoanalysts, demonstrates just how alive and pertinent Joyce remains for considerations of the symptom, the subject, and the endless inventions of the unconscious in the clinic of psychoanalysis. Written at the confluence of psychoanalysis and literary scholarship, these essays adumbrate Joyce’s complex relation to psychoanalysis alongside Freud’s and Lacan’s historic contributions – creating rich trajectories of scholarship for our time. This is a stunning collection of interdisciplinary essays.”
Annie G. Rogers, psychoanalyst, artist, and author
“Lacan turned to Joyce because literature, at its most uncompromising, pushes psychoanalysis to think beyond its own categories. This superb collection honours that long conversation with real intellectual nerve and creative ambition – moving from the sinthome to the subaltern, mourning to the maternal, through pairings (Joyce and Kant, Joyce and Tolkien) as illuminating as they are unexpected, without letting either discipline overtake the other or settle for easy answers. Rigorous and exciting, this volume is essential for Joyceans rethinking method, and for clinicians for whom Joyce's formal daring speaks urgently to symptom, structure, and language.”
Karen Zumhagen-Zekplé, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Tulane University
ISBN: 9781032655529
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
130 pages