1st Edition

The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and Science

By Thalia Trigoni Copyright 2021
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

This book reassesses the philosophical, psychological and, above all, the literary representations of the unconscious in the early twentieth century. This period is distinctive in the history of responses to the unconscious because it gave rise to a line of thought according to which the unconscious is an intelligent agent able to perform judgements and formulate its own thoughts. The roots of... Read more
  1. Introduction: The Intelligent Unconscious in the Modernist World
  2. The Psychology of Unconscious Consciousness
  3. D.H. Lawrence on the Intelligent Unconscious and the Allotropic State of Being
  4. Virginia Woolf’s Stream of (Un)Consciousness: The Ontology of Unconscious Androgyny
  5. Feeling Unconscious Thoughts in T. S. Eliot’s Criticism and Poetry
  6. Conclusion: From Modernism to 21st Century Cognitive Science

Biography

Thalia Trigoni is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge and an MA in American Literature from King’s College, University of London. She has published on D.H. Lawrence, William James, E.S. Dallas, Salvador Dali and Thomas De Quincey in Routledge, Palgrave MacMillan, Bloomsbury, Springer and De Gruyter.

Shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) First Book Prize and for the 2021 British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize.

"This is an exciting study, offering fresh and challenging readings of Lawrence, Woolf, and others who not only wrote about but also theorised modules of intelligent unconscious." (British Society of Literature and Science)