Hardback. New. ISBN 0820497355 9780820497358 [GB]

ISBN10: 0820497355, ISBN13: 9780820497358, [publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc] Hardcover 203 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0820497355, ISBN13: 9780820497358, [publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc] Hardcover First Edition Hardcover. Discussions of the self in James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traditionally have a generic or a generalized quality: the self is modernist or postmodernist, essential or processive, unified or fragmented, etc. Pathologies of Desire takes a different tack: it shifts the ground of discussion, locating the self in relation to particular dispositions or traits of the subject, Stephen Dedalus. More specifically, it foregrounds three pathological states (autoerotic, paranoia, and the shame/guilt syndrome) as primary modes of self-aggregation the unique power of painful inner splits and divisions to precipitate self-awareness, and to make the self self-reflexive. As challenges to self-understanding, anxiety (autoeroticism), persecution (paranoia), and humiliation (shame/guilt) are prime catalysts of those multi-layered linguistic resources that fortify Stephens self with the means of comprehending its own angst. The fact that each particular self dissolves to make way for another underscores its purely contingent and transitional quality it functions as a defense against the singularity of the pain that it generates. Stephens ultimate prospect of creating new future selves is thus contingent on his power to liberate himself from the old ones oppressive conditioning. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouse ...

Peter Lang Pub Inc 2008 Hardcover New 203 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches.