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Volume 103 - September 1988

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Editorial

  • Guest Editor's Column

  • Judy Goulding
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 October 2020, pp. 3-4
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  • Editor's Note

  • John W. Kronik
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    23 October 2020, p. 733
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Research Article

  • Manic-Depressive Psychosis and Critical Approaches to Virginia Woolf's Life and Work

  • Thomas C. Caramagno
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    23 October 2020, pp. 10-23

  • Although recent scientific discoveries about the genetic and biochemical components of manic-depressive psychosis have radically revised our understanding of the etiology and psychodynamics of this illness, psychological studies of Virginia Woolf's life and work have generally remained tied to Freud's outmoded model of loss-induced neurosis. This model appeals to critics because it readily imposes coherence on often inconsistent biographical data, but it fails to account for psychotic breakdowns and tends to disparage Woolf with its emphasis on the infantile and evasive aspects of art. Since Woolf's symptoms do fulfill the manic-depressive paradigm, a consideration of how contemporary psychiatric theory alters our reading of her life may also explain the therapeutic value of her bold experiments in fiction as well as her profound insights into subject-object transactions and the pitfalls of interpretation in general.

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