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Discerning the Self: Reviewing Karen DeMeester’s “Trauma and Recovery in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway”
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Modern & Postmodern Fictions Alice Wei Prof. Cecilia Liu Discerning the Self: Reviewing Karen DeMeester's "Trauma and Recovery in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway" One of the essential motifs in Mrs. Dalloway is discerning the subjectivity in the process of initiation. Both of the leading characters-Clarissa and Septimus-being the center in the novel quest for self-recognition and the essence of life in different ways. In the approach of psychoanalysis, Septimus as the inner self of Clarissa reminds her painful memory embedded in her mind. In the aspect of social institution, Septimus and Clarissa encounter the formidable rule that one's subjectivity is constructed by society. In light of knowing the self, this review attempts to illuminate the neglect of DeMeester's discourse on the relation of trauma and recovery entrapped in the psychoanalysis in his "Trauma and Recovery in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway." Reading Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway in the approach of psychoanalysis, DeMeester...
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