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Article: Odyssey of the Psyche: Jungian Patterns in Ulysses.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Odyssey of the Psyche: Jungian Patterns in Ulysses. By Jean Kimball.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. 1997. xiv
+202 pp. $39.95.
In the preface to her study of James Joyce's work, Jean Kimball offers the reader insight into the genesis of her interest in Ulysses: she came to the book through an undergraduate course in the 1950s; her approach to the text had by the 1970s led her to consider the connection between its author and the work of Carl Jung. The depth of Kimball's commitment seems important, for she seeks to ask anew fundamental questions about the most discussed of Joyce's novels: What is the specific connection between ...