“The Fallacy of Understanding”: D.H. Lawrence’s Emotional Logic in Fantasia of the Unconscious and Apocalypse
“Understanding is a fallacy and a vice in most people.All we can have is wisdom […].And wisdom is not a theory, it is a state of soul.”(D. H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious)All his life, Lawrence wrote passionately against what he called the cerebralization of feeling. In Fantasia of the Unc...
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| הוצא לאור ב: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence, |
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| פורמט: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| שפה: | Anglais |
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Études Lawrenciennes
2014
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | “Understanding is a fallacy and a vice in most people.All we can have is wisdom […].And wisdom is not a theory, it is a state of soul.”(D. H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious)All his life, Lawrence wrote passionately against what he called the cerebralization of feeling. In Fantasia of the Unconscious, to convey his concept of the aesthetic as a “lapsing out” of the conscious self, he describes some of the ways in which selfhood and self-awareness may be damaged by utilitarian “understa... |
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