Organism of the Letter

This book examines Virginis Woolf's The Waves as a §point of crises in her writing career: in her §previous works, Woolf was able to construct iambic §rhythm and topological shapes as substitutes for §that part of the symbolic which did not work for §her. The rhythm and the topological structures Woolf §assigns in her texts serve as her sinthomatic §solution; the singular solution of the subject in §the form of his creation. Both the rhythm and the §topological shapes are symbolic prosthetic §substitutes that hold the real in a net-like form. §When that net breaks, as happens in The Waves, Woolf §is left facing the real. Woolf s constructed rhythm §is the solution she comprises as a result of a §racing pulse that indexes an irregularity of the §symbolic. The topological shapes are Woolf s attempt §at creating an imaginary, non-specular body; the §topological shapes give body to Woolf's real §organism and serve as their extension. This book §also reveals Woolf's inability to continue §manufacturing her organism, and her failure at §composing a substitute rhythm. This failure, as §manifested in The Waves, leads to Woolf s fatal §passage into an object, and to her eventual suicide.