Interior time, according to Bergson is entirely incomprehensible to science (Ibid), regarding it as flexible, in flux, compressed and layered with memory (which provides the link of the past to the present). Bergson focused on memory, interior time, exterior time and intuition. 2007) of the early 20 th century Henri Bergson’s philosophical discourse describes intuition and immediate experience as being more significant than rational science as the basis for understanding reality. Henri-Louis Bergson’s (1859-1941) philosophy was also highly influential in the 1920’s. Therefore any use of their methods must be instinctive.”ĭisplaying disinterest and scepticism in psychoanalysis, Woolf nevertheless admits an influence which ‘must be instinctive’. “I have not studied Dr Freud or any psychoanalyst – indeed I think I have never read any of their books: my knowledge is merely from superficial talk. Although Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s publishing company, Hogarth Press was the first to publish Sigmund Freud’s work in English Virginia was very wary of his ideas As he delved into the interior space of consciousness, dreams and the psyche he influenced spheres of thought across academic disciplines and arguably governs much of psychoanalytic thought to this day. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) set the psychological lay of the land with his theories of psychoanalysis, oedipal complex and femininity.
This essay will provide a brief overview of the prominent influential thinkers of the Modernist period and then move onto how Woolf provides her social critique through the exploration of these psychological, philosophical and scientific musings centred on time, in relation to the novel. Mrs Dalloway, Woolf’s fourth novel incorporates this vision enabling her to turn away from the traditional linear mode of writing and incorporate a more inclusive style and representation of the current modes of thinking.
WORD FOR SPACE IN TIME SERIES
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged, life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms, and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday, the accent falls differently from of old…. The mind receives a myriad impressions- trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpest of steel. For example, in the same year as Mrs Dalloway (1925) was published Woolf wrote an essay titled ‘Modern Fiction’ which challenged the traditional linear Edwardian style of writing and describes her alternative route Įxamine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. One glance at Virginia Woolf’s bibliography tells you that she was preoccupied with exploring the relationship between time and space.
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