James Joyce's Writing and Psychoanalysis

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-65552-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: The Freud Lacan institute Lectures series

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 anticolonialism, 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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Eve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Freud Lacan institute Lectures Series Preface

Note on the Editor

Notes on the Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface

EVE WATSON

1. James Joyce, or the Literary Symptom of Psychoanalysis

JEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ

2. “Give up the Moody Brooding!” Mourning and Melancholia in Joyce’s Ulysses

PAULINE O’CALLAGHAN

3. Joyce’s Artistry and “Real-izing” the Psychoanalytic Symptom

EVE WATSON

4. “Politico-ecomedy”: A Return to Joyce and Lacan, and the Sinthome between the Social and Individual

DANIEL BRISTOW

5. Anything, But Not That

IVANA MILIVOJEVIC-SLOTE

6. Mamafesta: Joyceance and the Law of the Mother

JOSEPH VALENTE

7. Epiphany after Laplanche: Joyce, Kant and the Maternal Sublime

SEAN KENNEDY

8. Tolkien, Joyce, Lacan

DAN COLLINS

9. Reading Ulysses as Psychoanalysts

ISAAC SLONE

10. The Litter and the Living Tongue: Joyce and Psychoanalytic Subalterity

AHMAD FUAD RAHMAT

Über Autor(innen)

Eve Watson is a psychoanalyst, academic, and writer in Dublin, Ireland. Her co-edited books include Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysts Reconsider the Legacy, Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice, and Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory. She is the academic director of the Freud Lacan institute (FLi), Dublin.