Patrick White: Fiction and the Unconscious

By David J. Tacey

Based on Jungian ideas about the archetypal patterns of the psyche, this study contests long-held beliefs about the work of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White--arguing that his fiction is dominated by the workings of his unconscious mind and that its symbolic patterns are those of a mother complex--and offers profound insight into the Australian consciousness.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195548671
• ISBN13: 9780195548679
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.6"