dc.contributor.advisor |
Kim, R |
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dc.contributor.advisor |
Wilson, E |
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dc.contributor.author |
Green, Chloe |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2014-02-09T20:58:44Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2013 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/21574 |
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dc.description |
Full text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only. |
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dc.description.abstract |
The rise of psychoanalysis, for many female patients, proved not to free the female body from the constraints of Victorian femininity, but to confine the body in the pathologising terminology of the discipline. This study focuses on the relationship between the works of Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys, in their fictional and autobiographical writings, and the conceptual limitations regarding femininity imposed by the rise of Freudian psychoanalysis. In their investigations into memory and the formation of feminine identity, Woolf and Rhys discovered that at the foundation of psychoanalysis was a denial of the very experiences which so influenced their construction of identity. In the works discussed in this study, Freudian readings of the problematic feminine psyche are converted into expressions of feminine selfhood. The identities presented in these works defy the limitations placed upon of the Victorian female, and critique the preservation of this model of feminine identity through the aims of psychoanalytic discourse. The first chapter will explore the conversion of hysteria into a mobile, fluid presentation of gendered identity in Mrs Dalloway (1925). The second chapter focuses on Woolf’s dissection of the role of familial structure in creating feminine identity in The Waves (1931). The third chapter will examine the effects of Freud’s denial of seduction theory on Rhys’ construction of the female body in Good Morning, Midnight (1939), and explore how this denial is incorporated into the complicity of feminine entities in perpetuating psychoanalytic narratives. |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Masters Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights |
Restricted Item. Available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/ |
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dc.title |
Writing the Wandering Woman: Hysteria, Narrative, and Mobile Femininities in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The Author |
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pubs.elements-id |
406440 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2013-09-16 |
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dc.identifier.wikidata |
Q112900195 |
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