Leopold Bloom walked fast to the post office and there he got a letter from his confidential penpal. He used a false name "Henry Flower" to her and enjoyed this secret correspondence. Bloom, the frustrated cuckold, was bawdy but he loved his wife best. Before reading this letter, he happened to meet one of his friends, M'Coy, who was very proud of his wife and said that she had made a contract with a small concert agent as a singer, and here Bloom necessarily defended his wife, Madam Marion, from him because she was a well-known opera singer in the city Dublin. As there was plenty of time before Dignam's funeral, Bloom listened to a church mass for a while and enjoyed a bath. In front of Dignam's house the carriages started for the cemetery: Bloom, sitting with three other persons in one of the carriages, felt that he was looked down on by them as he was a Jew. During the ceremony, he was suffering, thinking of his personal and social situation at persent. However, at the end he found a person to whom he could hold his head high. In the events that these two episodes present, we can trace the active conscious and unconscious processes of Leopold Bloom's mind.

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Philip S. Holzman (Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology, 1970) cites some characteristics of the common mental disease of schizophrenia as follows: 1. separation of the intellect from the emotions 2. inappropriate emotional reactions 3. distortions in normal logical thought processes 4. withdrawal from social relationships 5. delusions and hallucinations With this suggestion in mind we may discover the schizoid disorder in Paul in Cather's `Paul's Case' as exemplified by the oddness, strange sensitiveness, detached quality, lifelong sense of dread which Paul describes as well as his disgust at human touch, and his inability to express directly his angry feelings, which are, in this paper, elucidated and illustrated by numerous passages from the story. With a psychoanalytical study-in-depth of Paul as its main aim, this paper goes along in its comprehensive analysis of the short story in the following sections: 1. Cather's dichotomy in her view of the city of Pittsburgh 2. Paul: the Scapegoat 3. Fictional structure in `Paul's Case'4. Schizoid disorder in Paul 5. Symbolic use of flowers and colours in the story 6. Cather's point of view As attempted in this paper, a deeper comprehension of the story will, 55this writer believes, be arrived at through a mythological approach (as in Paul; the Scapegoat) in addition to a psychoanalytical one.

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The aim of this paper is to look into the components of "The Strengthof God, " and to psychoanalyze the protagonist in the story.The id wanted to look again at the woman lying white and quiet inher bed, while the super-ego which is roughly equivalent to consciencewanted to abandon the carnal desire and only to pray to God. The egomediating between the demands of the id and the super-ego perfectlyadmitted the immoral demand of the id, but on the other hand, the egolet the super-ego admit the id's demand for the reason that through hissermons to delve into her soul he need to look again at the womanlying white and quiet in her bed.It was the strength of the id that let him pick up a stone and with itbreak out a corner of the window.

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