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The connection between Virginia Woolf and Clarissa Dalloway: a review in the context of gender melancholia
(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2023) Ceylan, Lila; Keskin, Ferda
ABSTRACT: Melancholy has always been a controversial mental situation, and different explanations and definitions have been put forward about it. However, Freud’s emphasis on what is lost and what that loss causes in individuals in melancholia and how Butler built upon it with her gender melancholy theory opens up a new dimension for understanding the roots and the causes of melancholia. This thesis's primary focus is to explain how Virginia Woolf could have experienced gender melancholy by taking Sigmund Freud's and Judith Butler's melancholia theories. By exploring Virginia Woolf's diaries, essays, and Clarissa Dalloway's expressions in her semi-autobiographical novel Mrs. Dalloway, this study will critically analyse how gender melancholy and Woolf's reflections are parallel. In other words, it will identify and detailly analyse how Freud's melancholia theory and Butler’s gender melancholia theory match what Woolf conveyed through her diaries and essays alongside Clarissa Dalloway as the character in which Woolf mirrored her inner self and own experiences.