8 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Anglo-Irish philosopher and bishop — author of A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge — who argued that material substance does not exist and that reality consists entirely of minds and ideas — the most radical empiricist idealist.
Irish playwright who wrote Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, and Man and Superman — the most important dramatist after Shakespeare in the English language — and whose plays are simultaneously social criticism (capitalism, war, medicine, marriage) and philosophical comedy.
Irish novelist who wrote Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake — the most formally innovative fiction of the 20th century — and whose daughter Lucia's schizophrenia led to consultation with Jung (who diagnosed her as truly psychotic while Joyce himself, Jung said, was diving where his daughter was drowning).
Anglo-Irish satirist who wrote Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal — the greatest satirist in the English language — whose savage irony exposed the stupidity of human pride, political corruption, and the brutal logic of colonialism in Ireland.
Irish journalist and columnist — former Irish Times and Sunday Times Ireland columnist — whose writing on the Irish Free State, WWI, and the Troubles was influential and whose career ended after a 2017 column widely interpreted as antisemitic.
Irish Jungian analyst who has written on body-oriented approaches to analytical psychology — integrating somatic awareness with dream work and active imagination, bringing the body into the analytic space in ways that classical Jungian analysis had sometimes neglected.
Account of Irish indentured servitude and early colonialism in the Caribbean — referenced in the History 102 context of discussions about early American colonial history and the Irish diaspora.
Irish poet who wrote some of the greatest poems in the English language (The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, Among School Children) — and who developed a complex private mythological system (A Vision) through automatic writing with his wife George — one of the few major poets whose mysticism was as serious as his art.