... line, out of sight of his prefect..."p 20) person of Stephen Dedalus. His affliction, that is, his artistic affliction/curse, is principally one of the mind and psyche. Phobias are a sickness of the mind and therefore, can only be transcended through use of the psyche, and by the cultivation of the mind.(2) Stephen's flickering and resistant wit is present both when ... the intellectual affiliation is represented by an ephemeral reference to the professor being an "atheist freemason" (and, of course, a professor of mathematics). In the course of Stephen's larger intellectual and spiritu...

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