Tuesday, May 9, 2006

a fallen king, a flirting couple, an isolated saint

Joyce's career as the systematic pursuit of which story-plots are deeper than which, brought to consummation with the first drafts of FW. Ulysses..same system of motifs, but instead of following them thru one character's development, universalise as psychological inventory of a [person's] day..Very little Joyce criticism has been devoted to differentiating those 18 psychological categories underlying Ulysses' 18 chapters [do you, here? <> ah-style as mind

- At the heart of AI knot involving the categories of human psychology - Resolving requires precisely differentiating all these categories - [hmm ~"There are psychological categories." a)true b) false c)the statement is problematic ihe following way (pls specify)] {K said? Freud same question ~ grounds (but that'd be my word choice) of personality ---- I want to talk about types wrt the meaning ToYou 'of what you do --ok fine- subjective meanings/Uses of behavior patterns} This differentiation will depend on identifying which psychological categories supply the deepest archetypes - James Joyce was clearly wrestling with this problem in Finnegans Wake ah FW well- At the center of his solution are the archetypal twins Shem (the sinister experimenter) and Shaun (the virtuous conformist)
..But I rather feel that the solution will come, not from more study of the notebooks and drafts, but from more reflection on the Shem-principle and the Shaun-principle as embodied in my own life. Joyce had freed himself at a very early age from the pressures of social conformity, and this seems to have been the key to his creative genius. mhm.The Shauns of the world (and of the Wake) are duller than the Shems, but they seem to have a greater worldly success during their lifetimes. littledoubt.
http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/fwake/archetypes.html

A way a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun.
FW tells the story of an archetypal family,whose
sons are always at war (with each other and with their father)
whose daughter competes with the mother
for the father's love.
The father suffers a public disgrace, the son and mother write a letter that accuses or exonerates him, the children play a game and do their homework, the father closes his pub after an evening of gossip and debate...

encyclopedic mastery of the symbolic weights of words - - symbolic?~elemental
the phrases Joyce sought in the notes had to be several things at once:
doubled/tripled/quadrupled levels of meaning, all appropriate - -all the
embodying a voice - -when the voice left out into it / yet speaking about the losing - (the soul that suffered from being its body)

http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/newgame.html

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