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Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature Exploring Individuation, Alchemy and Symbolism
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 literary creativity under a Jungian lens, spanning both the literary and scholarly Jungian field. The literary works of Hilda Doolittle, James Joyce and W.B Yeats are read in the light of Jung’s central theme of an ‘alchemical marriage’ with attempts at developing a related alchemical model, a Jungian poetics, which serves to expand a reader’s understanding of modernist uses of language. This provides a fresh new lens through which modernist literature is viewed and seeks to revaluate the role of Jung in the humanities, namely in the field of modernist literature, an area from which Jung has long been shunned.
This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of literature, modernism, psychoanalysis, gender studies, Jungian psychology, depth psychology, literary theory, and cultural studies.
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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.
