The Waters of the Mind: Rhetorical Patterns of Fluidity in Woolf, William James, Bergson and Freud

From: PSYART | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: ¡ ­ ­ ³ º a Jesà nchez-Vizcaà no, Marà pez; s Là Sà | Copyright information

At the beginning of the 20th century, writers such as Virginia Woolf and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, William James and Henri Bergson were trying to give a novel account of our inner and psychological life. The aim of this article is to compare Woolf's metaphorical recreation of the workings of the human mind by means of a rhetorical pattern articulated around the notions of container and content, surface and depth, fluidity and unboundedness with Freud's dynamic and topographical represen...

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