The Self Under Extreme Conditions in Virginia Woolf’s Writing
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https://doi.org/10.36399/GroundingsUG.5.238Keywords:
Virginia Woolf, Struggles, Individual, Self, Psychoanalysis, Selfhood, Gender Performativity, Social Restraints, PatriarchyAbstract
In her writings, Virginia Woolf illustrates the struggles of the individual under extreme conditions through the prism of the self: the crux of the individual. Psychoanalysis, as advanced by Freud and Lacan, in addition to more recent theories of gender performativity, will afford comment on Woolf’s texts and the nature of selfhood. Ultimately, the self is shown to be compromised by social restraints and patriarchal impositions; this is reflected both in terms of Woolf’s characters and in terms of the individual female artist. As a corrective to the repressions of patriarchy, Woolf advocates an androgynous selfhood.
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