Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis: Volume 1

by Elizabeth Abel and Professor Elizabeth Abel

Book Overview

"A stunning, brilliant, absolutely compelling reading of Woolf through the lens of Kleinian and Freudian psychoanalytic debates about the primacy of maternality and paternality in the construction of consciousness, gender, politics, and the past, and of psychoanalysis through the lens of Woolf's novels and essays. In addition to transforming our understanding of Woolf, this book radically expands our understanding of the historicity and contingent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226000818
• ISBN13: 9780226000817
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"