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Joyce & Jung offers a uniquely feminist poststructuralist and post-Jungian psychoanalytic analysis of Stephen Dedalus’s psychosexual growth in James Joyce’s twentieth-century classic A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Hiromi Yoshida relocates Stephen’s growth within the Jungian soul-portrait gallery, known as the ""four stages of eroticism,"" in which Eve, Helen, Mary, and Sophia are collective anima projections. Throughout this dazzling lyrical analysis of poetic identity formation, the mother, the prostitute, the Virgin Mary, and the Bird-Girl are celebrated as Stephen Dedalus’s ironically experienced anima women, who enable his achievement of cross-dressed lyric authority.

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Hiromi Yoshida's innovative approach to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man demonstrates how Joyce's Stephen Dedalus reaches a heightened state of creativity through his gradual integration of feminine elements into his psyche. Her detailed afterword to the new edition of Joyce & Jung adds lucid insights to this important critical study. -Nancy Bombaci, Associate Professor of Writing and Literature, Mitchell College, New London, Connecticut Fifteen years after the original publication of Hiromi Yoshida's Joyce & Jung, the arrival of the new, updated, significantly expanded edition is sure to be welcomed by fans of both James Joyce and Carl Jung. The supplementary bibliographic references are especially useful, and the significantly expanded analysis of Stephen Dedalus's psychosexual development beyond Jung's 'four stages of eroticism' will continue to provoke scholarly discussion for a very long time indeed. -William Hutchings, Professor of Literature, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Fifteen years after the original publication of Hiromi Yoshida's Joyce & Jung, the arrival of the new, updated, significantly expanded edition is sure to be welcomed by fans of both James Joyce and Carl Jung. The supplementary bibliographic references are especially useful, and the significantly expanded analysis of Stephen Dedalus's psychosexual development beyond Jung's 'four stages of eroticism' will continue to provoke scholarly discussion for a very long time indeed. -William Hutchings, Professor of Literature, University of Alabama at Birmingham Hiromi Yoshida's innovative approach to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man demonstrates how Joyce's Stephen Dedalus reaches a heightened state of creativity through his gradual integration of feminine elements into his psyche. Her detailed afterword to the new edition of Joyce & Jung adds lucid insights to this important critical study. -Nancy Bombaci, Associate Professor of Writing and Literature, Mitchell College, New London, Connecticut

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Hiromi Yoshida is an independent literary scholar and a poet. She has taught for the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington. Her scholarly interests include James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, the Beat Generation, the psychoanalysis of gender and race, and poststructuralist poetics. Her literary criticism has been published in Plath Profiles, and she has authored three poetry chapbooks, Icarus Burning, Epicanthus, and Icarus Redux.

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