Doody, Terrence A.2009-06-042009-06-041996Schneider, Stephen Patrick. "Elemental gyres: The structure of William Butler Yeats' "A Vision" (Ireland, Carl G. Jung)." (1996) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/16961">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/16961</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/16961This dissertation presents a method for reading William Butler Yeats's A Vision. Establishing parallels between the language of A Vision and that of Jung's Psychological Types both renders A Vision comprehensible at the sentence level and identifies the classical theory of temperaments as a crucial unacknowledged influence on both Yeats and Jung. A reading of Book I of A Vision demonstrates how its cycle of lunar phases functions as a sophisticated psychological typology and reveals the underlying structure of Yeats's system.243 p.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.English literaturePersonality psychologyPhilosophy of ReligionThesisTHESIS ENGL. 1996 SCHNEIDER