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Anna Livia Plurabelle’s normless interactions in Finnegans Wake

The complex structure and characterization of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake present a normless environment for its female characters, specifically Anna Livia Plurabelle (ALP). This paper explores ALP’s normlessness in her social interactions using Karen Horney’s theory of neurosis as a methodological...

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Autores principales: Farahmandian, Hamid, Jian-qing, Zhang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9583420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36275223
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.917865
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description The complex structure and characterization of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake present a normless environment for its female characters, specifically Anna Livia Plurabelle (ALP). This paper explores ALP’s normlessness in her social interactions using Karen Horney’s theory of neurosis as a methodological device to reveal ALP’s detached personality. Horney considers normlessness a trend of “Moving Away from People,” also known as a detached personality. According to Horney, “self-sufficiency,” “perfection,” and “narrow limits in life” are the three neurotic factors that produce a detached personality, all of which are apparent in ALP’s personality. In this novel, ALP is portrayed as neurotic to demonstrate her dependence on men and how she coopts male power in favor of her needs.
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spelling pubmed-95834202022-10-21 Anna Livia Plurabelle’s normless interactions in Finnegans Wake Farahmandian, Hamid Jian-qing, Zhang Front Psychol Psychology The complex structure and characterization of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake present a normless environment for its female characters, specifically Anna Livia Plurabelle (ALP). This paper explores ALP’s normlessness in her social interactions using Karen Horney’s theory of neurosis as a methodological device to reveal ALP’s detached personality. Horney considers normlessness a trend of “Moving Away from People,” also known as a detached personality. According to Horney, “self-sufficiency,” “perfection,” and “narrow limits in life” are the three neurotic factors that produce a detached personality, all of which are apparent in ALP’s personality. In this novel, ALP is portrayed as neurotic to demonstrate her dependence on men and how she coopts male power in favor of her needs. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9583420/ /pubmed/36275223 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.917865 Text en Copyright © 2022 Farahmandian and Jian-qing. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9583420/
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