Portrait of the Artist as a Fading Youth
Format
Oral Presentation
Abstract/Artist Statement
In my paper, “Portrait of the Artist as a Fading Youth,” I conduct a psychoanalytic reading of Dylan Thomas’s short story “A Visit to Grandpa’s” and James Joyce’s “The Dead,” the last tale from the author’s short story collection Dubliners. Originally written for Dr. Diane Borden’s Literature and Psychology class, this works compares and distinguished the operation of Melancholia and Mourning in both texts. Incorporating the ideas of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Phyllis Greenacre with Joyce scholar Christine Van Boheemen, I ague that Thomas’s aging and emotionally fragile Grandpa is representative of a pathological Melancholia while Joyce’s protagonist, Gabriel Conroy, exemplifies a prevailing state of mourning. In my oral presentation, I shall be reading a revised copy my piece.
Location
Pacific Geosciences Center
Start Date
30-4-2005 11:00 AM
End Date
30-4-2005 12:00 PM
Portrait of the Artist as a Fading Youth
Pacific Geosciences Center
In my paper, “Portrait of the Artist as a Fading Youth,” I conduct a psychoanalytic reading of Dylan Thomas’s short story “A Visit to Grandpa’s” and James Joyce’s “The Dead,” the last tale from the author’s short story collection Dubliners. Originally written for Dr. Diane Borden’s Literature and Psychology class, this works compares and distinguished the operation of Melancholia and Mourning in both texts. Incorporating the ideas of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Phyllis Greenacre with Joyce scholar Christine Van Boheemen, I ague that Thomas’s aging and emotionally fragile Grandpa is representative of a pathological Melancholia while Joyce’s protagonist, Gabriel Conroy, exemplifies a prevailing state of mourning. In my oral presentation, I shall be reading a revised copy my piece.