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Blum, H. P. (1969) A Psychoanalytic View of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 17:888-903
- In this examination of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, I shall not attempt a complete elucidation of all the peripheral ideas and fantasies presented in the play.
- The plot of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? concerns two university couples who meet on a Saturday night and gradually become intimately involved with each other.
- The games in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? can also be compared to the adaptive aspects of childhood play on the theme of adoption and the related family romance.
- "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" here means who is afraid to face reality, who is afraid painfully to renounce a treasured illusion?
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf New York: Pocket Books, 1963Bychowski, G.
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Bond, A. H. (1985) Virginia Woolf: Manic-Depressive Psychosis and Genius. An Illustration of Separation-Individuation Theory. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 13:191-210
- (1972), Virginia Woolf, a Biography, Vols.
- (1980), In Virginia Woolf, Miscellany, No. 15 (Christmas), p.
- (1972), Recollections of Virginia Woolf, William Morrow & Co.
- (1953), The Moth and the Star, A Biography of Virginia Woolf, Little, Brown & Co.
- (1978), Woman of Letters, A Life of Virginia Woolf, Oxford University Press, London, pp.
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Bond, A. H. (1986) Virginia Woolf and Leslie Stephen: A Father's Contribution to Psychosis and Genius. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 14:507-524
- (1972), Virginia Woolf, a Biography, vols.
- (1981), Virginia Woolf: metaphor of the inverted birth, American Imago, 38, 284.
- (1977), Virginia Woolf, Sources of Madness and Art, Berkeley: University of California Press.
- (1978), Woman of Letters, A Life of Virginia Woolf. Oxford University Press, London, pp.
- (1975), The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1, 1888-1912.
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Bornstein, B. (1983) Virginia Woolf: Grief and the Need for Cohesion in To The Lighthouse. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 3:357-370
- 198333357-370Virginia Woolf: Grief and the Need for Cohesion in To The LighthouseBenita Bornstein 26904 Meadow Drive Franklin, Michigan 48025 In her memoir, written when she was 57, Virginia Woolf (1939-1940) writes of her mother: It is perfectly true that she obsessed me, in spite of the fact that she died when I was thirteen, until I was forty-four.
- Excerpts from Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf are reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., copyright © 1976 by Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett.
- (1977). Virginia Woolf: Sources of Madness and Art.
- Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf. New York: Oxford Univ.
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Caramagno, T. C. (1990) Who Killed Virginia Woolf? A Psychobiography by Alma Halbert Bond New York: Human Sciences Press, 1989, 200 pp., $19.95. Psychoanalytic Books 1:383-387
- He is the author of the forthcoming Virginia Woolf: A Neuro-biography of her Manic Depression. Alma Bond, a full-time psychoanalyst for 35 years in private practice, turns her attention to a famous suicide in literary history, that of Virginia Woolf. Bond's task is formidable, for numerous books and articles have been published speculating on the reasons why Woolf killed herself.
- Who Killed Virginia Woolf? embodies the very crisis psychoanalysis is currently undergoing.
- Who Killed Virginia Woolf? is perhaps most successful because Bond has taken the purely “psychological” approach as far as it will go.
- (1987). Virginia Woolf and the “lust of creation”: A psychoanalytic exploration.
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Caramagno, T. C. (1991) Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work by Louise DeSalvo Boston: Beacon Press, 1989, xxiii + 372 pp., $22.95. Psychoanalytic Books 2:420-425
- 1991 2 3 420-425 Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work by Louise DeSalvo Boston: Beacon Press, 1989, xxiii + 372 pp., $22.95 Thomas C.
- The publication of Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work has created a stir, for it coincides with a national movement to recognize childhood sexual abuse as a serious and widespread issue.
- Indisputably, Virginia Woolf suffered severe depressions periodically throughout her adult life: her husband, her family, her friends, and her own letters and diaries attest to this fact.
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Caramagno, T. C. (1992) Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis by Elizabeth Abel Women in Culture and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989, xviii + 181 pp., $24.95. Psychoanalytic Books 3:306-311
- Caramagno Assistant Professor of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln and the author of The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf and Manic-Depressive Illness.
- Stimpson's “Women in Culture and Society” series, Elizabeth Abel's book, Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis, elegantly and expertly combines feminist theory, literary criticism, and anthropology.
- Perhaps Abel's best first step was to choose Virginia Woolf for her study. Long the subject of reductionistic psychoanalytic studies that focused almost exclusively on (and misunderstood) her manic-depressive symptoms, Woolf is here presented as an intellectual equal, a pioneering researcher of the mind with as much to tell us about how the psyche is formed as Sigmund Freud or Melanie Klein.
- In chapter 1 Abel shows us how deeply immersed Virginia Woolf was in the psychoanalytic culture of London in the 1920s, which was then contentiously debating the conflicting ideologies of Freud and Klein.
- She shows us that psychoanalysis has a history, a childhood, a context in which its truths were born out of expectations, some of which were self-serving. Virginia Woolf was one of the witnesses of that birth; her fiction de-authorized psychoanalysis, disclosing its fictionality.
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Charles, M. (2004) The Waves: Tensions between Creativity and Containment in the Life and Writings of Virginia Woolf. Psychoanalytic Review 91:71-97
- (1972b). Virginia Woolf: A biography. Vol. 2: Mrs.
- , Modern critical views: Virginia Woolf (pp. 215-222).
- , Modern critical views: Virginia Woolf (pp. 53-65).
- Hunting the moth: Virginia Woolf and the creative imagination.
- , Critical essays on Virginia Woolf (pp. 199-211).
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Clancier, A. (1994) Virginia Woolf et la bisexualité. Revue française de psychanalyse 58:231-236
- Parmi les écrivains de ce groupe, Virginia Woolf illustra dans son roman Orlando le thème de la bisexualité.
- Virginia Woolf et l'écriture Si l'on examine les textes de Virginia Woolf, sa correspondance et les témoignages de ses amis, on s'aperçoit que sa plus grande passion fut l'écriture, même dans les moments de désespoir.
- Among the writers of this group, Virginia Woolf elaborated on the theme of bisexuality in her novel, Orlando.
- Entre los escritores de este grupo, Virginia Woolf ilustró en su novela Orlando el tema de la bisexualidad.
- Scrittura. Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf, Une chanére à soi, traduit par Clara Malraux, Paris, Denoël/Gonthier, 1951.
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Clulow, C. (2017) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, by Edward Albee, directed by James Macdonald, A National Theatre Live production, May 2017. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis 7:237-239
- 2017 7 2 237-239 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, by Edward Albee, directed by James Macdonald, A National Theatre Live production, May 2017 Christopher Clulow Consultant couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council, and a Senior Fellow of Tavistock Relationships, London.
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Dalsimer, K. (1992) Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis: By Elizabeth Abel. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1990. Pp. 182.. International Review of Psychoanalysis 19:110-113
- Whether one was persuaded, intrigued, sceptical, or derisive, Freud's ideas became a force to be reckoned with in the intellectual world in which Virginia Woolf lived. Virginia Woolf herself was derisive—'ferocious' was the word James Strachey used to describe her attitude—in conversation, towards psychoanalysis and especially psychoanalysts.
- But however wary Woolf may have been of psychoanalysis as a method of treatment—or indeed as theory—it is nonetheless true that the affinities between the concerns of Virginia Woolf and those of psychoanalysis are numerous, and they run deep.
- I am reminded of the question Virginia Woolf poses, in a memoir, about the nature of memory: 'Why have I forgotten so many things that must have been, one would have thought, more memorable than what I do remember?'
- Psychoanalysts will find Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis a provocative book: its title, indeed, throws down a gauntlet.
- Its explication of the writing of Virginia Woolf is richly, richly rewarding.
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Dalsimer, K. (1994) The Vicissitudes of Mourning: Virginia Woolf And To The Lighthouse. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 49:394-411
- Ramsay, a mother who is a creation of the imagination, to Virginia Woolf herself and to her own mother.
- In writing To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf was “thinking back through” Mrs.
- And I believe that Virginia Woolf is too—in spite of her efforts not to be.
- (1972). Virginia Woolf. New York: Harcourt Brace.
- The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol. 3, 1925-1930.
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Dalsimer, K. (2004) Virginia Woolf: Thinking Back Through Our Mothers. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 24:713-730
- (2001), Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer.
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- (1977-1984), The Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Vols. 1-5, ed.
- (1986-1994), The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vols. 1-4, ed.
- (1986), Virginia Woolf and the Real World.
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De Clerck, R. (2015) Maladie et créativité Les relations de Virginia Woolf avec la psychanalyse. Revue Belge de Psychanalyse 67:81-99
- Bell (1990). Virginia Woolf, A Biography, vol. 1.
- The early journals of Virginia Woolf. London, Chatto & Windus.
- (1996), Virginia Woolf, Chatto & Windus.
- (1989). « Virginia Woolf and Psychoanalysis », Int.
- The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 5 vol., Mariner Books.
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Fishman, G. G. (1986) American Imago. XXXVIII, 1981: Virginia Woolf—Her Voyage Back. Louise F. Strouse. Pp. 185-202.. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 55:194-194
- XXXVIII, 1981Virginia Woolf—Her Voyage Back. Louise F.
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Fountain, G. (1993) The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. XLV, 1990: Who's Afraid in Virginia Woolf? Clues to Early Sexual Abuse in Literature. Lenore C. Terr. Pp. 533-546.. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 62:345
- XLV, 1990Who's Afraid in Virginia Woolf? Clues to Early Sexual Abuse in Literature.
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Hinshelwood, B. (1990) Virginia Woolf and Psychoanalysis. International Review of Psychoanalysis 17:367-371
- But I want to query his conclusions, especially on the question: why didn't Virginia Woolf have an analysis? He places some weight on the scathing remarks that Virginia Woolf makes in her diary about Freud and psychoanalysis prior to her visit to Freud in Hampstead in 1939.
- Taking the three points first: (a) Though psychoanalysis was not generally well known before the First World War, by the time that Virginia Woolf had her third breakdown in 1913–1914, there were some people who were well acquainted with psychoanalysis, and one group of people were the intimates of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, the Bloomsbury Group.
- 1989 Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and Work London: The Women's Press.
- ORR, D. 1989 Virginia Woolf and psychoanalysis Int.
- 1972 Recollections of Virginia Woolf In Joan Russell Noble (ED): Recollections of Virginia Woolf London: Peter Owen; London: Cardinal, 1989 paperback edition.
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Jacobs, T. J. (1993) Who Killed Virginia Woolf? a Psychobiography: By Alma Halbert Bond, Ph.D. New York: Human Sciences Press, Inc., 1989. 200 pp.. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 62:153-158
- 199362153-158Who Killed Virginia Woolf? a PsychobiographyBy Alma Halbert Bond, Ph.D.
- This is the challenge that Alma Bond, a practicing psychoanalyst, has accepted in writing Who Killed Virginia Woolf?, a study of the multiple and complex factors that contributed to Virginia Woolf's decision in 1941 to commit suicide by drowning.
- The title of her book, with its clear implication of murder and its reference to Edward Albee's play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which was a study in sadomasochism that chronicled a couple's 153 destruction of their marriage and of themselves, makes her point of view clear.
- Fortunately, Bond is too experienced a psychoanalyst, too knowledgeable about the ways of the heart, and too conversant with the power of fantasy and imagination to endorse completely the view that Virginia Woolf was driven to suicide. While she does not hesitate to place a large share of the responsibility for that death on others and, in fact, allies herself with Virginia Woolf as the victim of brutal narcissism, the author can also examine the forces within Woolf that culminated in self-destruction.
- In any event, Bond's analysis of the marriage and how it functioned for the two partners illuminates not only the marital relationship but important aspects of the characters of both Leonard and Virginia Woolf.Bond does not do as well in handling Woolf's childhood.
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Kushen, B. (1981) Virginia Woolf: Metaphor of the Inverted Birth. American Imago 38:279-304
- Quentin Bell in Virginia Woolf: A Biography, notes that Julia attempted to educate Virginia herself.
- Whatever the effect of later childhood on Virginia Woolf, the first year was the most critical in the formation of her personality.
- Kushen, “The Psychogenic Imperative in the Works of Virginia Woolf,” L&P, 27, No.
- It arose primarily from the end of symbiotic unity and secondarily from the loss of the child-penis. Virginia Woolf equated this separation with the death of the lost object.
- By this cyclical reversal, Virginia Woolf announces the unbroken continuity of life by the immanence of death in life and life in death.
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Leaska, M. A. (1988) Virginia Woolf and the “Lust of Creation”: A Psychoanalytic Exploration. Shirley Panken. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1987, 336 pp.. Psychoanalytic Review 75:339-342
- 1988 75 2 339-342 Virginia Woolf and the “Lust of Creation”: A Psychoanalytic Exploration.
- Leaska Virginia Woolf was extraordinarily prolific as a writer. She left behind at her death at the age of 59, a long shelf of novels, stories, biographies, essays, reviews, memoirs, thousands of letters and numerous volumes of diaries and journals. Virginia Woolf was a complex of psychological nuance, analytic penetration, and Apollonian intellect.
- Throughout Virginia Woolf and the “Lust of Creation,” we are guided by a narrative that is moving, perceptive, and immediate.
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