ABSTRACT
Feminist analysis of Woolf sees immediately moves into territory of some depth because of Woolf's obvious entanglements with psychoanalytic issues, and because of the clear nature of the woman-to-woman linkage that occurs throughout Woolf's work. The work of both Lacan and Kristeva is of obvious use here, and is itself an offshoot of the type of theory we have described. Because of the extent to which her work recapitulates Freudian or psychoanalytic themes some of which we have just analyzed Woolf's work can also be analyzed along specific concepts introduced by Lacan, such as the gaze. Woolf's focuses on knowing and that which might be known and here we have to use these terms in ways that might be antithetical to a great deal of professional philosophy is such that immediacy and reality-within-the-moment are the defining factors for her. Here we come to a core that may be susceptible to more standard feminist philosophical analysis.
