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Genealogy of Joycean Melancholy: Before and After Giacomo Joyce

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Authors

Shin, Kikkawa

Issue Date
2004
Publisher
서울대학교 인문대학 인문학연구원
Citation
인문논총, Vol.52, pp. 41-71
Abstract
Aside from the recent development in the psychiatry, melancholy has been a
discursive theme in many works of art. Mourning and Melancholy of Sigmund
Freud is still helpful for thinking about the literary characters suffering from the
disappointed love or loss of someone: it is goes without saying that Stephen
Dedalus cannot recover from his mourning over his mother.
Melancholy can be analysed as a fundamental disposition in Joycean characters,
and especially Giacomo Joyce would supply the clue to understand the pivot of
self-consciousness of Joyce as an artist.
Masashi Miura, a Japanese literary critic, says that the eyes of melancholiac,
which are inept with direct contact with the social reality, look at everything in a
considerabledistance as if they were looking through a telescope upside down.
These are the eyes which look at everything as a past thing, looking the present as
the past. And also, Bin Kimura, a Japanese psychiatrist, says that a man of
melancholy experiences all the historic development of the past, the present and
the future as an irrevocable determination. This type of melancholy can mostly be
reified in Joycean texts, especially in Giacomo Joyce. Joyce sometimes introduces outer voices: the voice of a fisherwoman in Exiles
or a crying of Stephanos Dedalos in A Portrait, which can provide the characters
a kind of recognision: or captions in 7th episode in Ulysses, whichthe characters in
the narrative world can not hear. The latter can remind us of the real world where
the author is representing the subject, whose unknowability or alterity was
repressed in the world of fiction. By introducing such voices, Joyce makes it
possible that the alterity of the represented subject (especially a woman) can
manifest itself beyond the domination and control of the melancholic author.
ISSN
1598-3021
Language
English
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/29513
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