1st Edition

Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature Exploring Individuation, Alchemy and Symbolism

By Roula-Maria Dib Copyright 2020
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature argues for the centrality of Carl Jung’s theory of individuation and alchemy in modernist poetics. Through analysis of the uses of a mythic method in modernist literary works, the book develops a related alchemical model which serves to expand understanding of modernist uses of language. The book is an innovative exploration of modernist... Read more

Acknowledgements

Abstract

Contents

Abbreviations

Foreword by Susan Rowland

1 Introduction: The Return of Jung

Common Critiques of Jung

Revisions of Jung’s Theories

2 Jung, Psychoanalysis, and the Great Divide

Overall View of Jungian Theory

Jung and Freud

3 Literary Jung

Jung in the Literary Field

A Jungian Poetics

Poetry and Alchemy

H.D., Yeats, and Joyce

4 Alchemy as Poetic Metaphor in H.D.’s Trilogy

H.D.’s Poetics and Jung

H.D. and the Feminist Revision of Jung’s Theory

H.D.’s Feminist Poetics and Rimbaud’s Alchemy of the Word

5 Between Yeats and Jung: The Poetics of a Jungian Paradigm

A Ritualistic Poetics

A Vision: The Visionary and the Visual

6 Alchemy of the Word in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,

Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake

Ulysses: The Alchemy of Individuation between Text and Meta-text

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Different Phases of

the Anima

The Mythic Method, Art, and the Hero’s Journey Toward Archetypes

Stephen as a Symbolist ‘Hero’

Stephen and the Collective Unconscious in Magic, Memory, and Naming

Finnegans Wake: Alchemy and Antinomy

Finnegans Wake and the ‘Scientific’ Aspect of Verbal Alchemy

7 Conclusion

H.D.’s Verbal Alchemy

Yeats’s Visionary Alchemy

Joyce’s Textual Individuation

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Biography

Roula-Maria Dib is an Assistant Professor of English at the American University in Dubai, UAE. She is also a member of the International Association for Jungian Studies and the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies.