TY - BOOK ID - 26395566 TI - The flight of the mind: Virginia Woolf's art and manic-depressive illness PY - 1993 SN - 0520072804 0520205049 0520935128 0585249482 9780520935129 9780585249483 9780520072800 9780520205048 PB - Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Psychological study of literature KW - Woolf, Virginia KW - Novelists, English KW - Manic-depressive persons KW - Literature and mental illness. KW - Bipolar Disorder KW - Literature KW - Literature and mental illness KW - Humanities KW - Affective Disorders, Psychotic KW - Mood Disorders KW - Mental Disorders KW - Psychiatry and Psychology KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - English Literature KW - Biography KW - Health. KW - Biography. KW - Woolf, Virginia, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Authors, Insane KW - Mental illness and literature KW - Poets, Insane KW - Manic-depressive illness KW - Manic-depressives KW - Mentally ill KW - English novelists KW - Literatures KW - Mania KW - Manic State KW - Psychoses, Manic-Depressive KW - Affective Psychosis, Bipolar KW - Depression, Bipolar KW - Manic Disorder KW - Manic-Depressive Psychosis KW - Psychosis, Manic-Depressive KW - Bipolar Affective Psychosis KW - Bipolar Depression KW - Bipolar Disorders KW - Disorder, Bipolar KW - Disorder, Manic KW - Manias KW - Manic Depressive Psychosis KW - Manic Disorders KW - Manic States KW - Manic-Depressive Psychoses KW - Psychoses, Bipolar Affective KW - Psychoses, Manic Depressive KW - Psychosis, Bipolar Affective KW - Psychosis, Manic Depressive KW - State, Manic KW - States, Manic KW - Behavior Disorders KW - Diagnosis, Psychiatric KW - Mental Disorders, Severe KW - Psychiatric Diagnosis KW - Disorder, Mental KW - Disorder, Severe Mental KW - Disorders, Behavior KW - Disorders, Mental KW - Disorders, Severe Mental KW - Mental Disorder KW - Mental Disorder, Severe KW - Severe Mental Disorder KW - Severe Mental Disorders KW - Mentally Ill Persons KW - Affective Disorders KW - Affective Disorder KW - Disorder, Affective KW - Disorder, Mood KW - Disorders, Affective KW - Disorders, Mood KW - Mood Disorder KW - Psychotic Affective Disorders KW - Psychotic Mood Disorders KW - Depression, Reactive, Psychotic KW - Mood Disorders, Psychotic KW - Psychoses, Affective KW - Affective Disorder, Psychotic KW - Affective Psychoses KW - Disorder, Psychotic Affective KW - Disorders, Psychotic Affective KW - Mood Disorder, Psychotic KW - Psychotic Affective Disorder KW - Psychotic Mood Disorder KW - Patients KW - Woolf, Virginia Stephen, KW - Stephen, Virginia, KW - Ulf, Virzhinii︠a︡, KW - Ṿolf, Ṿirg'inyah, KW - Vulf, Virdzhinii︠a︡, KW - Вулф, Вирджиния, KW - וולף, וירג׳יניה KW - וולף, וירג׳יניה, KW - Stephen, Adeline Virginia, KW - Psychiatric Diseases KW - Psychiatric Disorders KW - Psychiatric Illness KW - Psychiatric Disease KW - Psychiatric Disorder KW - Psychiatric Illnesses KW - Bipolar Mood Disorder KW - Manic Depression KW - Bipolar Mood Disorders KW - Depression, Manic KW - Depressions, Manic KW - Disorder, Bipolar Mood KW - Mood Disorder, Bipolar KW - Mental Illness KW - Illness, Mental KW - Mental Illnesses KW - BD people (People with bipolar disorder) KW - Bipolar disorder, People with KW - Bipolar people KW - People with bipolar affective psychosis KW - People with bipolar depression KW - People with bipolar mood disorder KW - Depressed persons KW - People with bipolar disorder KW - Bipolar Disorder Type 1 KW - Bipolar Disorder Type 2 KW - Type 1 Bipolar Disorder KW - Type 2 Bipolar Disorder KW - Psychiatry UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:26395566 AB - The author contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. Literary studies of Woolf's life have been written almost exclusively from a psychoanalytic perspective. They portray Woolf as a victim of the Freudian "family romance," reducing her art to a neurotic evasion of a traumatic childhood. But current knowledge about manic-depressive illness--its genetic transmission, its biochemistry, and its effect on brain function--reveals a new relationship between Woolf's art and her illness. Caramagno demonstrates how Woolf used her illness intelligently and creatively in her theories of fiction, of mental functioning, and of self structure. Her novels dramatize her struggle to imagine and master psychic fragmentation. They helped her restore form and value to her own sense of self and lead her readers to an enriched appreciation of the complexity of human consciousness. ER -