'madness' as a part of creative process. Any writer is 'mad' to a degree=wouldn't submit to the established conventions of sanity. The role of the unconscious-part of the Modernist programme-in order to have one's voice heard, one has to scream A troubled life: born at a wrong time-no university education. Right place-a family of intellectuals. Intellectual atmosphere. Large family, inner contradictions. Early psychological trauma, harassment by half brother. Bloomsberries-lively evening gatherings, convestations sparkled, discussed their own writing and other writing, painting, love and politics. Challenged strict victorian norms: sexual freedom, bisexual relations. Woolf's suicide: anxities, tensions underneath, liveliness of Bloomsury group. Peculiarities of Woolf's stream of consciousness.Stream of consciousness with carefully modulated poetic flow-moving between action and contemplation(mõtisklus, vaatlus) between retrospect and anticipation