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
Biography
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.
“James Joyce’s Writing and Psychoanalysis, drawing on the work of leading scholars of Joyce and practicing psychoanalysts, demonstrates just how alive and pertinent Joyce remains for considerations of the symptom, the subject, and the endless inventions of the unconscious in the clinic of psychoanalysis. Written at the confluence of psychoanalysis and literary scholarship, these essays adumbrate Joyce’s complex relation to psychoanalysis alongside Freud’s and Lacan’s historic contributions - creating rich trajectories of scholarship for our time. This is a stunning collection of interdisciplinary essays.”
Annie G. Rogers, psychoanalyst, artist, and author
“Lacan turned to Joyce because literature, at its most uncompromising, pushes psychoanalysis to think beyond its own categories. This superb collection honours that long conversation with real intellectual nerve and creative ambition — moving from the sinthome to the subaltern, mourning to the maternal, through pairings (Joyce and Kant, Joyce and Tolkien) as illuminating as they are unexpected, without letting either discipline overtake the other or settle for easy answers. Rigorous and exciting, this volume is essential for Joyceans rethinking method, and for clinicians for whom Joyce's formal daring speaks urgently to symptom, structure, and language.”
Karen Zumhagen-Zekplé, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Tulane University
