Leopold Bloom is Joycean Ulysses in terms of modem hero and he represents Everyman through his consciousness spreading in every directions. He lives with agony and frustration as a cuckold, a sonless father, a husband having no authority over her wife and a Jew. He can`t make sexual union with Molly owing to the trauma that his only son Rudy`s death has caused. This in turn induces his wife to commit adultery with Blazes Boylan, being the most serious agony to him. He is in abnormal conditions mentally and sexually and his ego is in the state of disintegration resulting from his agonies in real world. He showes symtoms of voyerism, womb envy, narcissism, Pygmalionism, womanly man, onamism etc. It can be said they work as a reaction against his suppressed state of mind, that is, he unconsciously struggles to maintain his disintegrated ego as a man. In "Circe", the world of fantasy and a psychodrama, he goes through various psychic hallucinations, such as his change of sex into woman, masochism, transfiguration into a mother giving birth to babies etc. This is the process of his psychic purgation. Then he becomes a well-rounded man and is restored to metal equanimity. After this fantasy he returns home with Stephen, now his spiritual son and forgives Molly. In spite of many sufferings from the real world and that of fantasy, he does not lose the attitude of moderation, humanity and love. By gradually understanding Bloom`s humanity and affections for them, Molly and Stephen change their mind and attitudes, and with Bloom make a Unity as Trinity. It means the harmony of the world of art by Stephen, the world of nature by Molly Bloom, and the world of Everyman by Leopold Bloom. This can be called "the New Bloomusalem" as Bloom declared in "Circe." |