A Freudian Perspective of "A Haunted House" by Virginia Wool

A FREUDIAN PERSPECTIVE OF

A HAUNTED HOUSE

By C?t?lina Ciau?

The writer, who has legion(predicate) liberties, may choose as he/she wishes the scene of exploit: the real humanity or a world which is more or less further from the former. The reader follows him/her in both(prenominal) cases. Nevertheless one finds it difficult to follow Virginia Woolf in her world of fiction, because of her cripted style, especially in stories such as A pursue House. Virginia Woolfs generation grew up in an environment of ideas made up of Russian literature and Freuds psychoanalysis, of French Post-Impressionist painting and G. B. Moores philosophy. In this mise en scene the author felt the need of redefining reality as the blood line of fiction. Woolf rebels against the Victorian way of writing, against the necessity of providing plot, comedy and tragedy and turns to inner-reality, to teem of consciousness, to new techniques of expressing fiction: Stream of consciousness fiction depends on the principles of the mental free association attempting to show how counsciuousness reacts to various stimuli that stir a persons memory, imagination or senses.



To do that, other devices are necessary, resembling the suspension of mental content according to the laws of psychological association, the model of discontinuity and compression by standard rhetorical figures and the suggestion of quintuple levels of meaning by images and symbols

All these elements are to be met in Woolfs A Haunted House, a metafiction that tackles the complexity of human mind with deferred payment to the fiction and the condition of the writer. However, the symbolistic of the story makes it difficult for the reader to decode the message if one does not take into consideration the modernist authors post in the psychological aspects of characters and the basic elements of psychoanalysis.

In his studies on the interpretation of dreams, Freud...

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