Abstract: The work of James Joyce is haunted by the question of the predecessor, who is simultaneously perceived as the generous source or progenitor, the beginning of being, the imago of the present living ego, and as the threatening rival. As the predecessor of Joyce par excellence, Shakespeare, in the works of the Irish author, confirms in a most significant and rich way how the relation to this oddly absent presence is marked by a fundamental ambivalence. The living are nourished by the gift of the no longer existing; they are paradoxically given exi...
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Psychoanalysis
Literature
Aesthetics