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James Joyce and the Internal World of the Replacement Child

James Joyce and the Internal World of the Replacement Child

Adams, Mary

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Focus on Mental Health

Literary CriticismMental Health

ISBN10: 1032314753
ISBN13: 9781032314754
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 27 2022
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book is an exploration of the internal world of James Joyce with particular emphasis on his being born into his parents' grief at the loss of their firstborn son, offering a new perspective on his emotional difficulties.

Mary Adams links Joyce's profound sense of guilt and abandonment with the trauma of being a 'replacement child' and compares his experience with that of two psychoanalytic cases, as well as with Freud and other well-known figures who were replacement children. Issues such as survivor guilt, sibling rivalry, the 'illegitimate' replacement son, and the 'dead mother' syndrome are discussed. Joyce is seen as maturing from a paranoid, fearful state through his writing, his intelligence, his humour and his sublime poetic sensibility. By escaping the oppressive aspects of life in Dublin, in exile he could find greater emotional freedom and a new sense of belonging. A quality of claustrophobic intrusive identification in Ulysses contrasts strikingly with a new levity, imaginative identification, intimacy and compassion in Finnegans Wake. James Joyce and the Internal World of the Replacement Child highlights the concept of the replacement child and the impact this can have on a whole family.

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