ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book offers a way into Stephen's characteristically obscure and difficult-to-follow interior monologue, showing how anthropomorphic projections reveal a soul in conflict, torn between personal aspirations and the voices of his past. It problematizes the writer's position in relation to the idle chatter he hears all around him and which threatens to envelop him as these superficial social voices lodge themselves in Marcel's mind and command his thoughts. The book looks at the formation of the soul in Joyce parallels the formation of the subconscious set out at the beginning of La Recherche in which Marcel's internalization of voices is used to symbolize his entry into the moral order. The texts of Proust and Joyce will forever generate more possibilities for interpretation because this is the dynamic on which they are built.
