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Park, Yunki. “James Joyce as an Artist and His Mid/wife, Nora Barnacle.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 38.1 (2012): 83-101. The Purpose of this essay is to examine James Joyce as an artist and his mid/wife, Nora Barnacle. Joyce had a belief that sexual desire was a natural thing of human being. He left Catholic Church as a young adult and did not return to it. He rejected, as Richard Brown points out, the theological in favour of a rational conception of sexual relationship. By rejecting the Church, he was free to develop a spirituality that was essence for an experienced artist. He believed that having sex was a pivotal experience to become a complete writer. By the time he first laid eyes on Nora, Joyce was immediately smitten and came to view her as a sexual object. According to their correspondence during the year 1909, as Mark Knowles suggests, it is clear that “Joyce’s sexual impulses were still clearly fixated at levels of libidinal development associated with infantile sexuality.” He projected all of his romantic fantasies on the mythically resilient Nora. Throughout 1909, He begged her to share that cloacal obsession: “Write more and dirtier, darling.” Joyce found what he was looking for: a companion who understood him, someone he could give himself to fully. He believed that Nora could fill the absence created by the death of his mother. They were seldom apart from the time they fled Ireland together in 1904 until his death 37 years later. For thirty-seven years, Nora’s greatest priority was the construction of an environment where Joyce could flourish as a great writer. Though she was uneducated, Nora was bright, wise, and self-confident. Above all things she was a stimulative mid/wife for the ambitious writer, James Joyce. (Pai Chai University)