James Joyce and the Jesuits

James Joyce and the Jesuits / Michael Mayo.

"Using Joyce's religious education and psychoanalytic theories of depression and paranoia, the book opens radical new possibilities for reading Joyce's fiction. In clear and engaging prose, the book takes readers through some of the canon's most well-read texts, including 'T...

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Main Author: Mayo, Michael, 1972- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Cambridge University Press ebook purchased.
Subjects:
Joyce, James, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation.
Joyce, James, > 1882-1941 > Religion.
Jesuits > In literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 'the cursed Jesuit strain'
  • 1.2 'O, a jesuit for your life, for diplomacy!'
  • 1.3 The Question of Influence
  • 1.4 Joyce and Theology
  • 1.5 The Manual
  • 1.6 Paranoid Reading
  • 1.7 Negative Narrative
  • 1.8 Choices and the Double Bind
  • 1.9 Methodology and Structure
  • Chapter 2 The Disturbed Mind
  • 2.1 Doubting and Not Doubting
  • 2.2 The Retreat
  • 2.3 The Psychoanalytic Analogue
  • 2.4 The Transference and the Exercises
  • 2.5 Dangers of the Transference
  • 2.6 The Attenuated Ego
  • 2.7 The Unbearable Text
  • 2.8 Salutary
  • 2.9 The Pleasure of the Unbearable Text
  • 2.10 Dangers of Irony
  • 2.11 The Depressive Solution: The Loyolan Position
  • 2.12 The Internal Objectum Christi
  • Chapter 3 Beyond the Uncle Charles Principle
  • 3.1 The Principle
  • 3.2 Though But Fussy But
  • 3.3 The Problem of Idiolect
  • 3.4 Gabriel the Father
  • 3.5 The Actual Ignorant Old Woman
  • 3.6 Projective Identification
  • 3.7 Judgement Night
  • Chapter 4 The Labour of Reading: Joyce with Klein
  • 4.1 The Heavy Book
  • 4.2 All Surface, All Depth
  • 4.3 Behind the Glass
  • 4.4 Crossroads
  • 4.5 Paranoid Creativity, Paranoid Comfort
  • 4.6 'Desire and prohibition': Epistemophilia
  • 4.7 What 'The Sisters' Won't Know It Knows
  • 4.8 The Flatness of the Transference
  • 4.9 Being Stuck, Getting Dirty
  • Chapter 5 Kleinian Aesthetics
  • 5.1 The Will to Get Inside
  • 5.2 Ambivalence
  • 5.3 The Birth of Thought
  • 5.4 The Symbolic Equation
  • Chapter 6 Discernment and Indifference
  • 6.1 Discernment
  • 6.2 The Phantasy of And
  • 6.3 Mysticism and the Exercises
  • 6.4 The Price to Be Paid
  • 6.5 Affections and Intellect
  • 6.6 Good Dead: Indifference
  • Chapter 7 It Was Pitch Dark Almost
  • 7.1 The Loyolan Position and Form
  • 7.2 The Sermon
  • 7.3 Prelude in Cork
  • 7.4 The Production of Wonder
  • 7.5 The Woman of the Ballyhoura Hills
  • 7.6 Opaque Obviousness
  • 7.7 'Aquinas tunbelly'
  • 7.8 Composition of Place
  • 7.9 'Almosting It'
  • 7.10 The Third Thing
  • Chapter 8 Substantiation
  • 8.1 Qui l'avait mise dans cette fichue position?
  • 8.2 Ambivalence as the Substance
  • 8.3 Here Is the Matter Now
  • 8.4 The Substance
  • 8.5 Puzzles and Laughter
  • 8.6 Knowing a Subject
  • 8.7 Substance and Style
  • 8.8 Metaphor
  • 8.9 Substance
  • Chapter 9 Conclusion: The Transference
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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