Abstrakt
It is not far-fetched to claim that Virginia Woolf was both a writer and a philosopher since her works deal with questions such as identity, gender, the nature of reality and finally consciousness and human mind. She suggests in A Room of One's Own that "the mind is certainly a very mysterious organ" and that it has on the one hand the capacity to separate its thought from the external and other people's thought and that on the other hand it can share thought with other minds and consciousness, which may result in so-called "merged consciousness".
The writer examines this concept first in her novel Mrs Dalloway but mainly in her later novel The Waves. By letting merge different characters' consciousness, the author reaches unity of her polyphonic narration as well as emphasizes her holistic approach to the perception of reality.