Virginia Woolf and the Lust of Creation: A Psychoanalytic Exploration

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SUNY Press, 1 de jan. de 1987 - 336 páginas
"Every secret of a writer's soul, experience of his life, and quality of his mind is written large in his work." -- Virginia Woolf

Panken enables us to read this secret language without doing violence to the artistic integrity of the writing.

Virginia Woolf's continuing need for maternal protection, her physical symptoms, depressive bent, anorexia, and suicidal leanings suggest her vulnerability, inner struggle, and masked rage. This book delves into the substrate of Virginia Woolf's emotional dilemmas as well as the subtexts of her novels and shows the confluence between her life and art. It brings new insights into Woolf's struggle to come to grips with her confused personal and sexual identity, into her artistic conscience, and into the conditions and motivations of her suicide.
 

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need for mater
19
Passionate affection for my father alter
41
Nessa has all that I should like to have
53
Lying unprotected she looked like
77
He seemed like one of those lost birds
89
I think of death some
101
Human beings
115
It was a house full of unrelated passions
141
Now a thousand hints and mysteries
167
no one to save memore cruel than
185
There must be another life
207
Oh that our human pain could here have
231
Epilogue
263
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Shirley Panken is a psychoanalyst and author of The Joy of Suffering: Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy of Masochism.

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