James Joyce and the Internal World of the Replacement Child

by Mary Adams

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032314753
• ISBN13: 9781032314754
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"