Modernism's dislocated self: James Joyce & multiple personality
This thesis explores Joyce's lifelong questioning of subjectivity and language in terms of his work's largely overlooked context of multiple personality psychology, and parapsychology. Turn-of-the-century multiple personality encompassed a diverse set of pre-Freudian psychologies and disco...
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ndltd-bl.uk-oai-ethos.bl.uk-4912642015-03-20T06:28:43ZModernism's dislocated self: James Joyce & multiple personalityKo, Charles2008This thesis explores Joyce's lifelong questioning of subjectivity and language in terms of his work's largely overlooked context of multiple personality psychology, and parapsychology. Turn-of-the-century multiple personality encompassed a diverse set of pre-Freudian psychologies and discourses - hypnosis, hysteria, spiritualism, psychical research, psychopathology, and Gothic literature—constellated around the period's discovery of the unconscious and its unsettling vision of a psychically porous and multiplex self. These models of the mind—and the fears and fantasies attached to them— provide a context not only for the social and psychic reality in Joyce's fiction but also for the various procedures associated with his modernist assault on character and narrative.823.912University of Oxfordhttp://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491264Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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This thesis explores Joyce's lifelong questioning of subjectivity and language in terms of his work's largely overlooked context of multiple personality psychology, and parapsychology. Turn-of-the-century multiple personality encompassed a diverse set of pre-Freudian psychologies and discourses - hypnosis, hysteria, spiritualism, psychical research, psychopathology, and Gothic literature—constellated around the period's discovery of the unconscious and its unsettling vision of a psychically porous and multiplex self. These models of the mind—and the fears and fantasies attached to them— provide a context not only for the social and psychic reality in Joyce's fiction but also for the various procedures associated with his modernist assault on character and narrative. |
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