"Fame: Schizophrenia" (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by Isabelle Anne INTRODUCTION “She talked almost without stopping for two or three days, paying no attention to any in the room or anything said to her...then gradually it became completely incoherent a mere jumble of dissociated words”. (Manamy) The above lines have been mentioned Virginia’s early stages of mania by her husband Leonard Woolf. Before describing her manic depressive psychosis and her tragic end, it is essential to know that why this illness was bound to come upon her? Is this natural or occurred due to terrible consequences of life? What has happened in her life? Why she has not met the natural death and committed suicide by leaving a suicidal note to her husband. These questions can only be justified when one can read her life through the lens of Psychoanalysis. This post deals with the scenarios and conditions which influenced and made Woolf’s mind to use the lens of Psychoanalysis in her novels.
This blog will help the readers to understand Woolf's critical style of writing and her works.