VIRGINIA WOOLF - A BRIEF GLANCE ON HER LIFE, WORKS AND STYLE.

"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. ...

  "Virginia Woolf Smiling ? Surely not..." (CC BY-SA 2.0) by Spratmackrel "Sigmund Freud" (CC BY 2.0) by immugmania VIRGINIA AND FREUD Sigmund Freud was born on 6 May 1856 whereas Virginia Woolf was born almost a quater of a century later in 1882. So basically Freud was 26 years older than her. He was a father of psychoanalysis. FREUD'S IMPACT ON LITERATURE There is a great impact of Freud’s theories on twentieth century literature. One can hardly find any area of literature which Freudian’s theory have left untouched. It can be said that because of Freud’s theories only, one can understand and appreciate the difficult poems, novels and plays than to write new ones. People can understand the complex play of Hamlet far better because of Freud’s psychoanalytical theories. VIRGINIA'S PROBLEM WITH FREUD So if everything is ok then why Virginia has problem with Freud? The problem lies with the thinking of Freud towards female...