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Article: On not psychoanalyzing Virginia Woolf.
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- American Scholar
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Of all modern novelists, Virginia Woolf has long been the one most susceptible to psychoanalytic prying. No wonder: the evidence she has left to posterity--her thousands of brilliant letters, her copious and revealing diaries, her posthumous autobiographical sketches--seems to invite the most uninhibited scrutiny. So she has been endlessly poked and prodded by interpreters hoping to explore the half-revealed secrets of her life as clues to her reticent, often elusive work. There seems to be much to explore: early sexual molestation by one, perhaps both, of her half brothers; an apparently sexless marriage; a passionate lesbian affair--what could be more tempting? Certainly ...
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