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'I Am Rooted, But I Flow': Virginia Woolf And 20th Century Thought, Emily Lauren Hanna
'I Am Rooted, But I Flow': Virginia Woolf And 20th Century Thought, Emily Lauren Hanna
Scripps Senior Theses
My thesis is about Virginia Woolf’s novels, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves, and To the Lighthouse. I examine these novels in relation to the theories of Henri Bergson, William James, and Sigmund Freud, and the groundwork of Modernism. I relate Woolf's use of water imagery and stream of consciousness technique to Bergson’s theory of “la durée,” or psychological, subjective time, James’ “stream of consciousness” theory in psychology, and Freud’s theory of the “oceanic” feeling of religious experience.