
The Underbred James Joyce
Art of Darkness
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Is Freud a Contemporary?
Joyce was skeptical of psychoanalysis in general, both the Freudian and the Union strains of it. He tried to get a portrait of an artist as a young man out of an earlier work that he'd written called Stephen Hero. And they're like, well, we don't even understand what this is. Like, I'm trying to put myself into the mindset of somebody who is a literary agent or a literary world person. They get dumped this and this is what you read.What do you eat of it? What do you eat with it? Yeah. Now, are we at this point, are we influenced by Freud? Is that going around yet?"
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