Joyce and Jung von Hiromi Yoshida | The «Four Stages of Eroticism» in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | ISBN 9780820469133

Joyce and Jung

The «Four Stages of Eroticism» in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

von Hiromi Yoshida
Buchcover Joyce and Jung | Hiromi Yoshida | EAN 9780820469133 | ISBN 0-8204-6913-0 | ISBN 978-0-8204-6913-3

Joyce and Jung

The «Four Stages of Eroticism» in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

von Hiromi Yoshida
Joyce and Jung offers a provocatively original chapter-by-chapter analysis of Stephen Dedalus’ psychosexual growth in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The author frames this within the Jungian soul-portrait gallery known as the «four stages of eroticism» in which Eve, Helen, Mary, and Sophia are the soul-portraits of Western civilization, drawing the collective eros into the psychic field to be witnessed as universal spectacle. In James Joyce’s twentieth-century classic, Stephen’s soul-portraits are the mother, the prostitute, the Virgin Mary, and the Bird-Girl.