2010-06-082010-06-082003Eugene O'Brien. 'Identites in the writer complexus: Joyce, Europe and Irish Identities'. in Patrica A. Lynch, Joachim Fischer & Brian Coates (eds.) Back to the Present: Irish Writing and History since 1798. Volume 2 (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2003), pages 217-232.9789042020368http://hdl.handle.net/10395/515This chapter examines forms of negative identity in terms of two intersecting verbal axes: Joyce‟s own term, gnomon and Jacques Derrida‟s term hauntology. Both terms gesture towards forms of negative identity which are the very antithesis of foundational or fundamental identity and I will trace this argument through some of Joyce‟s writings.enghttps://www.questia.com/library/119734475/back-to-the-present-forward-to-the-past-irish-writingDerridaJoyceNegative identityGnomonHauntologyPart/ Chapter of book