Joyce through Lacan and Zizek: Explorations (New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature)

Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Žižek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform. "In this perceptive study, Shelly Brivic examines James Joyce's writing through the analysis of Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Zizek. Brivic deftly establishes theoretical links between the internal or subjective aspect of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegan's Wake and Lacan and Zizek's psychoanalytic work. While Joyce utilized writing as expansion, Lacan and Zizek dissected what is not yet enclosed by language. Brivic argues that Joyce, Lacan, and Zizek's works all embody the idea that the exploration of an "inner" world enhances our perception of the "outer" world by defining the submerged language devices that shape our exterior observation. Both Joyce and Lacan present challenges to their readers and Brivic clarifies Lacan's ideas in order to bring new meaning to Joyce's work. Brivic makes clear that the thinkers whom Joyce inspired have proven fruitful in expanding his exploratory comprehension into new territories that expand into a global vision."--BOOK JACKET Introduction: Exploring Freedom through Language The Revolutionary Portrait of the Artist Stephen Dedalus Gets Changed Freedom through Figuration in A Portrait Entwined Genders in A Portrait Žižek, Fantasy, and Truth Ulysses Off Course Let's Get Lost: Exploration in Homer and Joyce Structure as Discovery in Ulysses Ulysses' "Circe": Dealing in Shame Finnegans Wake as the World Reality as Fetish: the Crime in Finnegan's Wake The Africanist Dimension of Finnegans' Wake The Rising Sun: Asia in Finnegans Wake Notes Works Cited Index Exploring freedom through language Stephen Dedalus gets changed Freedom through figuration in A portrait Entwined genders in A portrait Žižek, fantasy, and truth Let's get lost : exploration in Homer and Joyce Structure as discovery in Ulysses Ulysses, Circe : dealing in shame Reality as fetish : the crime in Finnegans wake The Africanist dimension of Finnegans wake The rising sun : Asia in Finnegans wake Exploration and comedy. Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Žižek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform--Résumé de l'éditeur

Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Žižek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform.

Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and A izek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform