1. The "I Am" Assignment
Psychoanalytic Symbols in "Kew Gardens".
Kew Gardens is one the most erotic short stories I have ever read. In Freudian terms it is the description of, if you like, a night's love making. Virginia Woolf intentionally used nouns, verbs, small descriptions that are very typical Freudian symbols, and even the structure of the short story fits into the psychoanalytic theory. .
Our first impression is that the short story has a quite romantic atmosphere; it is even erotic to a certain extent. All the dialogues, the little episodes take place between couples and are in connection with love or physicality, though not in a direct way in all the cases. The key for the episodes is hidden in the other, structurally separated part. .
There are two stylistically and structurally separable parts. The dialogues, which repeatedly interrupt the wildlife of the garden. The dialogues correspond to the conscious, and the wildlife of the garden corresponds to the unconscious of our mind. As Freud said we were conscious only of one tenth of our desires and motives. The two parallel parts describe the same, but on different levels of consciousness. The last paragraph is the evidence for this where the two levels meet, but they don't lose in their meaning. Maybe Virginia Woolf depicted the society where almost nothing could be directly expressed, although things still happened beneath the turf. It is important to admit, that the wildlife is not a frame for the dialogues, but the whole story is a repeated movement down to the depths of unconscious, and then back to the conscious. .
To be able to convince the reader of the background meaning of symbols, I shall enlist some of them. .
"Flat, blade-like trees that waved from root to tip" - this is a phallic symbol. Maybe it is important to add, that every device that is used for cutting or stabbing, being able to penetrate into the body can be a phallic symbol. .
"And from the red, blue or yellow gloom of the throat emerged a straight bar, rough with gold dust and slightly clubbed at the end.
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