Psychoanalysts reading this book will ponder the passage (p. 245) where it is said that when the Danish writer, Tom Kristensen, asked for help with Finnegan's Wake, Joyce recommended a reading of Vico. 'But do you believe in the Scienza Nuova?', asked Kristensen. 'I don't believe in any science', Joyce answered, 'but my imagination grows when I read Vico as it doesn't when I read Freud or Jung'. It is unlikely that Freud ever heard of Vico or of Joyce's remark, although Joyce must have made it while living in Trieste (1905-1915), at that time an Austrian city and a crossroad for all kinds of ideas, including psychoanalysis. It was there, in fact, that Edoardo Weiss lived and practiced psychoanalysis for several years. Had Freud known about Joyce's remark, it would only