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Chapter 2 - The Disturbed Mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2020

Michael Mayo
Michael Mayo
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University of Oxford
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The chapter examines the Spiritual Exercises of Loyola, the foundational text for Jesuit practice, and finds there a rich psychoanalytic dynamism between satisfaction and frustration, imagination and reality, and an insistent demand for a creative, affective response to the problems it forces the exercitant to face.

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Spiritual ExercisesJesuitsLoyolaretreatjouissancetransferenceBarthespsychoanalysisEve Sedgwickirony
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James Joyce and the Jesuits , pp. 29 - 57
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • The Disturbed Mind
  • Michael Mayo, University of Oxford
  • Book: James Joyce and the Jesuits
  • Online publication: 31 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108861830.002
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  • The Disturbed Mind
  • Michael Mayo, University of Oxford
  • Book: James Joyce and the Jesuits
  • Online publication: 31 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108861830.002
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  • The Disturbed Mind
  • Michael Mayo, University of Oxford
  • Book: James Joyce and the Jesuits
  • Online publication: 31 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108861830.002
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