Ep. 169 - Pray for us, Saint Thomas
Ora pro nobis! Pogue mahone! Acushla machree!
Topics in this episode include Thomas Aquinas (but less than you might expect), Aquinas’ views on incest, the meaning on “new Viennese school,” whether or not Joyce had any interest in psychoanalysis (and whether it matters), how Joyce may have encountered psychoanalysis in Zurich, Professor Edward Dowden, the work of psychoanalyst Otto Rank and his view on Hamlet specifically, Hamlet as an Oedipal text or an “incest drama”, the notion of Shakespeare writing Hamlet to process the death of his father, the theme of paternity in Ulysses, Stephen’s recognition of the historic resilience of Jewish communities, Nobodaddy, whether or not Reddit atheists have embraced the poetry of William Blake, and what John Eglinton and the Unabomber have in common.
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Further Reading:
Beck, H. Viennese school. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/freud
Brivic, S. (1980). Joyce between Freud and Jung. Port Washington: Kennikat Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/joycebetweenfreu0000briv/mode/2up
Kimball, J. (1976). James Joyce and Otto Rank: The Incest Motif in “Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly, 13(3), 366–382. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25487278
Kimball, J. (1983). Family Romance and Hero Myth: A Psychoanalytic Context for the Paternity Theme in “Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly, 20(2), 161–173. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476500
Simpson, J. Aquinas on friendship. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/aquinas
Thornton, W. (1968). Allusions in Ulysses: An annotated list. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/ucwq3x7