Ulysses and Finnegans Wake: A Q-Methodological Look at Profundity (Part II: Finnegans Wake)

Abstract

In contrast to the mainly substantive content of Ulysses, James Joyce's
Finnegans Wake is wholly transitive, a distinction introduced by William
James and fundamental to the principle of complementarity in quantum
theory. The free-floating "inner" thought of Molly Bloom (in Ulysses)
and that which permeates Finnegans Wake is the same that provides
creativity and truths which are outside the substantive conventions of
literary and scientific discourse. Finnegans Wake is therefore
methodological, Joyce's equation of void, incertitude, and unlikelihood
corresponding to the quantum principles of Q methodology.