LEADER 04793nam 22009012a 450 001 9910495876903321 005 20231013002225.0 010 $a0-520-93512-8 010 $a0-585-24948-2 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520935129 035 $a(CKB)111004366705256 035 $a(MH)002461437-8 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000156005 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12054158 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000156005 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10113386 035 $a(PQKB)10447710 035 $a(DE-B1597)569110 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520935129 035 $a(OCoLC)1198930613 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30771365 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30771365 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366705256 100 $a19911008d1992 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe flight of the mind$eVirginia Woolf's art and manic-depressive illness /$fThomas C. Caramagno 205 $aReprint 2020 210 0 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1992 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 362 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-520-20504-9 311 $a0-520-07280-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aI owned to great egotism the neurotic model in Woolf criticism -- Never was anyone so tossed up & down by the body as I am The sympotom of manic-depression illness -- But what is the meaning of explained it countertransference and modernism -- In casting accounts, never forget to begin with the state of the body genetics and the Stephen family line -- How completely he satisfied her is proved by the collapse emblematic events in family history -- How immense must be the force of life the art of autobiography and Woolf's bipolar theory of being -- A novel devoted to influenza reading without resolution in the voyage out -- Does anybody know Mr. Flanders? Bipolar cognition and syncretistic vision in Jacob's Room -- The sane & insane, side by side the object-relation of self-management in Mrs. Dalloway -- It is finished ambivalence resolved, self restored in To the Light house -- I do not know altogether who I am the plurality of intrasubjective life in the Waves. 330 $aThe author contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. Literary studies of Woolf's life have been written almost exclusively from a psychoanalytic perspective. They portray Woolf as a victim of the Freudian "family romance," reducing her art to a neurotic evasion of a traumatic childhood. But current knowledge about manic-depressive illness--its genetic transmission, its biochemistry, and its effect on brain function--reveals a new relationship between Woolf's art and her illness. Caramagno demonstrates how Woolf used her illness intelligently and creatively in her theories of fiction, of mental functioning, and of self structure. Her novels dramatize her struggle to imagine and master psychic fragmentation. They helped her restore form and value to her own sense of self and lead her readers to an enriched appreciation of the complexity of human consciousness. 606 $aNovelists, English$y20th century$xBiography$xHealth 606 $aPeople with bipolar disorder$vBiography 606 $aLiterature and mental illness 606 $aLiterature and mental illness 606 $aHumanities 606 $aAffective Disorders, Psychotic 606 $aMood Disorders 606 $aMental Disorders 606 $aPsychiatry 606 $aBipolar Disorder 606 $aLiterature 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aEnglish Literature$2HILCC 608 $aBiography 615 0$aNovelists, English$xBiography$xHealth. 615 0$aPeople with bipolar disorder 615 0$aLiterature and mental illness. 615 0$aLiterature and mental illness 615 2$aHumanities 615 2$aAffective Disorders, Psychotic 615 2$aMood Disorders 615 2$aMental Disorders 615 2$aPsychiatry 615 2$aBipolar Disorder 615 2$aLiterature 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aEnglish Literature 676 $a823/.912 676 $aB 700 $aCaramagno$b Thomas C$0545028 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495876903321 996 $aThe flight of the mind$92868053 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress