著者

中戸 一子

出版者

サイコアナリティカル英文学会

雑誌

サイコアナリティカル英文学論叢 (ISSN:03866009)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2008, no.28, pp.41-51,88, 2008 (Released:2011-05-24)

参考文献数

8

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Virginia Woolf tried to realize her ideal of human existence in her novel Orlando. It is in fantasy that a man can turn into a woman or live for nearly four centuries. Woolf had a strong wish to grasp the ‘moment of existence, ’ and this novel was to be a successful attempt to give it form, for Orlando is a fantasy.Woolf inherited a mental illness that incessantly troubled her. To her the only way to prevent the incidence of illness was to write novels, and writing was effective therapy for her.In Orlando she made her hero turn into a woman, and many a man of unpolished beauty. Both husband and wife were androgynous. Orlando and Shelmerdine spent ten days of blissful marriage which they began just after they met. They did not need many words to communicate with each other. To be together was all that they needed.At the very moment of happiness the idea of death occurred to Orlando. However, it no longer threatened her but allured her. Just like Orlando the author Virginia Woolf must have felt the same way, for the novel is in one sense the author herself, and in every work she wrote of the search of the moment of existence.In reference to “being” and “non-being, ” they are analyzed herein along the theory of C. G. Jung. For Woolf “being” was far more important for her life and for her writings than “non-being.” What are implied in these words are to be metaphysically ascertained.