چکیده (انگلیسی):

This article argues that Woolf serves as an exemplary model of women’s writing; a kind of writing through which
patriarchal language is subverted. She explores the nature of oppressive male discourse and the conditions necessary to
create alternative women’s discourse. In her text, unconscious desires manifest themselves through different languages.
Through meticulous analysis of characters’ language in Woolf’s selected works, it becomes evident that so far,
patriarchy has repressed the feminine element of the articulations of these unconscious desires. Therefore, Woolf’s text
lays bare a language which does not repress pre-symbolic elements, since they are considered as crucial determinants in
the process of the construction of subjectivity. Such a language is possible by merging masculine and feminine
elements, or in other words, by merging symbolic and semiotic elements. Characters, under an ever-present maternal
power, realise the inadequacy and limitations of the patriarchal (symbolic) language and therefore, transcend the rigid
boundaries of patriarchal language.