Gabriel Conroy as a Concept of James Joyce’s Personality in The Dead

Abstract

This study deals with James Joyce’s story The Dead, which dramatizes a dialogue between Gabriel's consciousness and unconsciousness.It is a kind of psychological analysis of the principle character Gabriel Conroy by demonstrating the possibilities of psychological criticism and addapting Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory.It aimes at argueing that Gabriel Conroy is a metaphore of one face of James Joyce and he is a reflection of joyce mentality and ideology.Also, to improve that this personality is a masque of what James Joyce fears to become,all that is by analysing this character from psychological point of view with an analytic review of The Dead,that represents biographical and historical sides;the life of James Joyce and his country :Dublin