HCJ seminar 3

Freud and Ulysses
• Chapter 15 essentially brings Bloom and Stephen closer together, bloom follows Stephen to ‘night town’ and is trying to protect from the lurid things he may see ( It being a red light district and all)

• They are having hallucinations because they are drunk or high or something; e.g. ‘On a step a gnome totting among a rubbishtip crouches to shoulder a sack of rags and bones’.

• The hallucinations seem to be coming out of their sub-concious, when bloom sees the sombrero wearing image it seems like his paranoia is coming to surface something key to his personality perhaps, a lot of blooms seem to be about sexual guilt such as when he is with the Nymph.

• Bloom has a hallucination about his parents were they confront Bloom about things he's done wrong, this links with Freuds theory of people constantly looking for acceptance and approval from their parents.

• Bloom has a hallucination about smoking and how he shouldn't be doing it which shows his sub-conscious voice speaking against what he is doing, something that he would not consciously think of.

• Stephen reacts more emotionally to seeing his dead mother, whereas Blooms apparitions are more of a drunken nature. Stephen seems to be intellectually and artistically independent due to his rejection from his parents, this has been pushed into his sub conscious something that has been repressed.

• Stephen is left unconscious at the end of the piece bloom helps him to his feet and helps him gather his things. Bloom is shown to be stephens metaphorical father by helping him to his feet. He is always trying to protect and shepard Bloom throughout the episode.

• Blooms hallucinations seem to be fuelled by his drunken state rather than his sub conscious thought but it still shows what he is really thinking/ feeling.

Freud
Freud's thinking circles around sex, everything people do all actions and emotions are linked to a sexual desire.

Rejection by parents can shape personality

Sexual desire to kill father and marry mother

The drive to live and the drive to die - Humans want to stay alive but also want to return to a natural state of calm i.e. be dead