​The Tempering of Trauma and the Sublimation of Literature:On Virginia Woolf's Mental Trauma and Her Literary Creation

The Tempering of Trauma and the Sublimation of Literature:On Virginia Woolf's Mental Trauma and Her Literary Creation

WANG Jiayi

(1. School of Literature, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071)

[Abstract]:Virginia Woolf, as a key figure of modernist literature, has a profound and complexdynamic relationship between her works and her personal mental trauma. This paper takes "Mrs.Dalloway" as the core text and combines trauma theory to deeply analyze how the death trauma,gender trauma, and war trauma in Woolf's life became the driving force of her literary creation. Thepaper argues that Woolf did not passively suffer from trauma but actively used the creative process asa way to examine, understand, and transcend the trauma. Her creative practice reveals that the literaryform itself is a container for carrying and transforming unbearable emotions.

[Key Words]: Virginia Woolf, Psychological Trauma; Literary Creation; "Mrs. Dalloway"; Stream ofConsciousness; Trauma Sublimation

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