“She sheltered herself from the reverence that covered all women; she felt praised. "The opening scene of In To The Lighthouse between Mr. Ramsay and Mrs. Ramsay exemplifies the gender divide that runs throughout the novel by highlighting Woolf's perspective on society and sexuality between the sexes. Woolf advocates belief in complete change of society that will result in a non-hierarchical society. Woolf believed that this occurred in addition to practical changes, that a radical redefinition of sexuality was also needed. Woolf focuses on "twentieth-century sexual issues central to feminist campaigns, such as marriage as form of institutionalized slavery, as well as the androgynous dual role shown by both men and women, during the development of the characters". Woolf's narration style also impacts the novel as she is known for not wanting to relate the novel to a single narrator: "Woolf's interests lay in wanting to communicate the impression made by one individual on another, thus revealing the human personality through one's self-expression." conscience." Woolf brings to attention one of Freud's most famous theories, the Oedipus complex, to highlight the patriarchy that runs through the family starting with Mr. Ramsay and his need to have his whims and desires satisfied by Mrs. Ramsay. Significantly, James, being a small child, has the same desire to carry on the patriarchy and replace his father as the top of the family. James needs the same reassurance and shows the same selfishness as his father in needing this sympathy and concern shown to him by Mrs Ramsay, "James...stood stiffly between her knees, felt her rising in a fruit tree with rosy flowers covered with leaves and dancing branches in which the beak......middles of paper..... .and Modern World'. Emergenza: a journal of university literary criticism and creative research. Available from (WWW) http://journals.english.ucsb.edu/index.php/Emergence/article/view/21/100 Date accessed: 11/12/13Ljiljana Ina GJurgjan. Gender politics in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse and James Joyce's A Portrait Of The Artist Of A Young Man. (Zagreb: 2010) pp 9Ruddick, Lisa. (1992) Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis by Elizabeth Abel Review, vol. 89, no. 4 (May 1992), pp. 617-620 Shmoop editorial team. “Virginia Woolf: Women and Gender” Available from (WWW) www.Shmoop.com Date accessed: 01/08/14Susan Sellers. The Cambridge Companion To Virginia Woolf (Cambridge: 2000) Sadowski, P. Dublin Business School: Androgyny and (nearly) perfect marriage: a systemic view of the genres of Leopold and Molly Bloom. 44, 1-2, 2010, 140-162. page 139