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Abstract

This paper sets a task to examine what effects Virginia Woolf could have through the work of writing novels. As she confessed she no longer heard her mother's voice and saw her after writing To the lighthouse Also she added that as if she had done something which is very like what the psychoanalyst generally does to his patients. As the patients overcome their trouble through talking with the psychoanalyst Woolf has the same effect through writing. So Woolf might get the “writing cure” in the process of writing her own novels, especially To the lighthouse. This paper follows the process of overcoming the strong influence of pseudo-mother Mrs. Ramsay by pseudo- daughter, Lily Briscoe who has ambivalent feelings toward Mrs. Ramsay and still is under Mrs. Ramsay's influence. By doing this it is possible to infer how “writing cure” could be happened to Woolf herself.