همایش رویکردهای میان رشته ای به آموزش زبان، ادبیات و مطالعات ترجمه

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Existence of Death in To the Lighthouse: An Existential Psychotherapeutic Reading

نویسندگان :

Katayoun Tavakoli Neyshabour¹ Omid Ghahreman²

1- دانشگاه خیام 2- دانشگاه خیام

کلمات کلیدی :

Existential Psychotherapy،To the Lighthouse،Death،Yalom،Woolf

چکیده :

To die is to lose the ability of living and this can bring a huge sense of fear to anyone. The existential psychotherapy, thus, is using the experience of living and dying to create a therapeutic approach. The focus of existential psychotherapy is on the concerns rooted in the existence of human beings. This kind of therapy, first inspired by Martin Heidegger’s Existentialism has several founders and developers among whom Irvin Yalom is an outstanding figure. As the focus of Existentialism is on how it is to be in this world and how it means, the focus of existential psychotherapy is also on the concerns rooted in the existence of human beings. Based on existential psychotherapy people mostly take two modes to face or fight with death: specialness and ultimate rescuer. Since this is death that gives meaning to life, “to be or not to be” is then the matter with which human being is tied up consciously or unconsciously every day. Yalom emphasizes four existential phenomena: death, isolation, freedom, and meaninglessness. What is going to be studied in this essay is the existential psychotherapeutic issue of death in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. In the lives of the three major characters, Mr. Ramsey, Mrs. Ramsey, and Lily Briscoe, death has an important role in the way of their livings. I will take Yalom’s modern psychotherapy in a humanistic approach to analyze and search through Woolf’s modernistic novel To the Lighthouse.