Virginia Woolf as group analyst

Help in understanding group life can come from unexpected quarters. This paper explores writer Virginia Woolf, who demonstrated unique insights into how human beings think, revise, and envision themselves, not as singular beings but as multiple subjects in the confluence of others who do the same, throughout life; we live without closure up to our death. More widely, literary models and metaphors are valuable for group analysis but lie beyond the usual sources on which we draw.