My research consists of a comparative study of the French and English psychoanalytic receptions of Virginia Woolf, drawing on the ongoing interaction between psychoanalysis and literature. I test the hypothesis that Woolf herself reshapes psychoanalytic literary criticism and makes it newly legible. The project expands on my MRes dissertation ‘The Whole, the Hole and the Border: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Frame in To The Lighthouse’ in which I try and show how Virginia Woolf’s prose bears witness to the Unspeakable by stylistically widening the gap between signifier and signified – a poetic framing of the ‘holes’ in language and experience.