This article is written keeping in mind with the novel ‘To the Lighthouse’ written by Virginia Wo... more This article is written keeping in mind with the novel ‘To the Lighthouse’ written by Virginia Woolf. She is the modern novelist of the twentieth century. She wrote, ‘To the Lighthouse’ in 1927, which uses rudiments taken for Virginia’s own life. This novel contains deeper exploration of the human mind. Virginia Woolf sets this novel in the ‘Isle of Skye’ in Scotland. The main purpose of this article is to see the novel of Virginia Woolf with the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory ‘Psychoanalysis’. This theory which deals with the unconscious mind of human. This article is dig out that how human behaviours and cognition effect the personality of persons which are settled in the mind of human. Virginia drifts the characters mind’s inner emotions especially the protagonist Mrs Ramsay who has the central figure of the story. By analysing of the theory of Psychoanalysis, the character of Mrs. Ramsay is explored in this article.
This thesis interrogates the interaction between feminist utopianism and altered states of consci... more This thesis interrogates the interaction between feminist utopianism and altered states of consciousness in fiction from 1970 onwards. The thesis develops further both Lyman Tower Sargent’s definition of utopianism as “social dreaming” and Tom Moylan’s understanding of critical utopia. It also develops and expands Lucy Sargisson’s definition of feminist utopianism as subversive, fluid, ambiguous and committed to ongoing personal and social transformation. Utopianism must challenge society’s norms and values, offering both social critique and social vision. I argue throughout this work that transforming individual consciousness is a vital step towards social change. The thesis focuses on four altered states of consciousness: madness, dreaming, spirituality and telepathy. These states are situated within a theoretical context, and are then explicated further through close literary analysis of feminist utopian literature. Altered states offer a metaphor for the need to think differently, and highlight the importance of looking at society in new and alternative ways. In a significant number of feminist utopian texts, utopia is accessed through a dream or a vision, through spiritual meditation, telepathy, or a state of “madness”. Within these texts, altered states are not only used as a means of accessing utopia but are also represented within the narrative as a means of maintaining or sustaining the utopian vision. Additionally, I show that altered states refers to the place of utopia, which is altered, or different to, contemporary society. The reader may also enter into an altered state through the process of reading the text, as their beliefs and assumptions about “the way things are” are challenged, denaturalised and subverted
This thesis interrogates the interaction between feminist utopianism and altered states of consci... more This thesis interrogates the interaction between feminist utopianism and altered states of consciousness in fiction from 1970 onwards. The thesis develops further both Lyman Tower Sargent's definition of utopianism as "social dreaming" and Tom Moylan's understanding of critical utopia. It also develops and expands Lucy Sargisson's definition of feminist utopianism as subversive, fluid, ambiguous and committed to ongoing personal and social transfonnation. Utopianism must challenge society's nonns and values, offering both social critique and social vision. I argue throughout this work that transfonning individual consciousness is a vital step towards social change.
This article is written keeping in mind with the novel ‘To the Lighthouse’ written by Virginia Wo... more This article is written keeping in mind with the novel ‘To the Lighthouse’ written by Virginia Woolf. She is the modern novelist of the twentieth century. She wrote, ‘To the Lighthouse’ in 1927, which uses rudiments taken for Virginia’s own life. This novel contains deeper exploration of the human mind. Virginia Woolf sets this novel in the ‘Isle of Skye’ in Scotland. The main purpose of this article is to see the novel of Virginia Woolf with the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory ‘Psychoanalysis’. This theory which deals with the unconscious mind of human. This article is dig out that how human behaviours and cognition effect the personality of persons which are settled in the mind of human. Virginia drifts the characters mind’s inner emotions especially the protagonist Mrs Ramsay who has the central figure of the story. By analysing of the theory of Psychoanalysis, the character of Mrs. Ramsay is explored in this article.
This thesis interrogates the interaction between feminist utopianism and altered states of consci... more This thesis interrogates the interaction between feminist utopianism and altered states of consciousness in fiction from 1970 onwards. The thesis develops further both Lyman Tower Sargent’s definition of utopianism as “social dreaming” and Tom Moylan’s understanding of critical utopia. It also develops and expands Lucy Sargisson’s definition of feminist utopianism as subversive, fluid, ambiguous and committed to ongoing personal and social transformation. Utopianism must challenge society’s norms and values, offering both social critique and social vision. I argue throughout this work that transforming individual consciousness is a vital step towards social change. The thesis focuses on four altered states of consciousness: madness, dreaming, spirituality and telepathy. These states are situated within a theoretical context, and are then explicated further through close literary analysis of feminist utopian literature. Altered states offer a metaphor for the need to think differently, and highlight the importance of looking at society in new and alternative ways. In a significant number of feminist utopian texts, utopia is accessed through a dream or a vision, through spiritual meditation, telepathy, or a state of “madness”. Within these texts, altered states are not only used as a means of accessing utopia but are also represented within the narrative as a means of maintaining or sustaining the utopian vision. Additionally, I show that altered states refers to the place of utopia, which is altered, or different to, contemporary society. The reader may also enter into an altered state through the process of reading the text, as their beliefs and assumptions about “the way things are” are challenged, denaturalised and subverted
This thesis interrogates the interaction between feminist utopianism and altered states of consci... more This thesis interrogates the interaction between feminist utopianism and altered states of consciousness in fiction from 1970 onwards. The thesis develops further both Lyman Tower Sargent's definition of utopianism as "social dreaming" and Tom Moylan's understanding of critical utopia. It also develops and expands Lucy Sargisson's definition of feminist utopianism as subversive, fluid, ambiguous and committed to ongoing personal and social transfonnation. Utopianism must challenge society's nonns and values, offering both social critique and social vision. I argue throughout this work that transfonning individual consciousness is a vital step towards social change.
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