Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Žižek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform.
SHELLY BRIVIC is Professor of English, Temple University, USA.
Introduction: Exploring Freedom Through Language PART I: THE REVOLUTIONARY PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST Stephen Dedalus Gets Changed Freedom Through Figuration in A Portrait Entwined Genders in A Portrait Žižek, Fantasy, and Truth PART II: ULYSSES OFF COURSE Let's Get Lost: Exploration in Homer and Joyce Structure as Discovery in Ulysses Ulysses' "Circe": Dealing in Shame Part III: FINNEGANS WAKE AS THE WORLD Reality as Fetish: The Crime In Finnegans Wake The Africanist Dimension of Finnegans Wake The Rising Sun: Asia in Finnegans Wake Conclusion: Exploration and Comedy Works
"[A] hugely enjoyable book...The expanding universe of Zizekian interpretation opens up to the judicious critic who, armed with Brivic's great knowledge of all things Joycean, can re-launch the sinthome, now freed from its cryptic vault and able to address many aspects of Joycean experience." - The James Joyce Quarterly
