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Virginia Woolf: Feminism, Creativity, and the Unconscious

Virginia Woolf: Feminism, Creativity, and the Unconscious

Maze, John R.
Maze, J. R.

Hardcover

Series: Contributions to the Study of World Literature, Book 84

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0313302839
ISBN13: 9780313302831
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Nov 30 1997
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.62
Language: English

John R. Maze presents a penetrating psychoanalytic reading of Virginia Woolf's novels from first to last. Underlying their elegant, imaginative, mysterious texture there is revealed a network of sibling rivalry, incestuous attraction and exploitation, sexual repulsion, bizarre fantasies, anger, and fatal despair.

Woolf's feminism and pacificism, based on her conscious insight into an authoritarian society, were given passionate conviction by her resentment and irrational guilt over her half-brothers' sexual aggression against her as a vulnerable girl. This found its place in repressed animosity toward her idealized mother, whom she blamed not only for failing to protect her, but also for trying to impose the Victorian female sexist orthodoxy. Deeper still was the childhood conviction that her mother was complicit in the fantasied genital injuries--exacerbated later, she felt, by the males in her life--which prevented her from having children, as her envied sister had. Maze's approach not only reveals the intimate processes of Woolf's imagination, but yields a deeper and richer reading of her texts. An important study for all students and scholars of British 20th-century literature, feminist literary criticism, and critical theory in general.

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