Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (781 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300092083 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ultimately, she came to feel that it was her shock-receiving capacity that had made her a writer.. Yet vulnerable as she was (skinless was her word) she began, through these years, to practise her art - and to discover how it could serve her. By the time she was 24, Virginia Woolf had suffered a series of devastating losses that later she would describe as sledge-hammer blows, beginning with the death of her mother when she was 13 years old and followed by those of her half-sister, father and brother
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While Woolf claimed that in her autobiographical To the Lighthouse she had "done what psychoanalysts do for their patients," Dalsimer draws out the book's psychology and Woolf's relationship to her deceased parents, and shows the matter to be much more complicated. . From Publishers Weekly As the daughter of archetypal Victorian parents and Freud's first English publisher, Woolf has often been a posthumous analysand; but among her chroniclers, Dalsimer, a clinical psychologist and faculty member of two Ivy League universities, may have the best credentials for putting her on the couch. Dalsimer's clinical objectivity may be more notable than her line-by-line literary criticism, but she elegantly explains how Woolf's imagination, often subsumed in tragedy, could still find pleasure in life's daily rhythms, and how writing "consoled and sustained her as much as it was possible for her to be