The Death Instinct and the Recovery of Psychical Integrity in the Bestiary of Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence’s dislike of Freudianism is well known. In Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious [PU], the essay published in 1923, he compares the Freudian unconscious to a “cellar” in which the conscious mind dumps “his own bastard spawn” (PU 204), and draws a caricature of Freud coming back from this...
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Études Lawrenciennes
2015
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| Résumé: | D.H. Lawrence’s dislike of Freudianism is well known. In Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious [PU], the essay published in 1923, he compares the Freudian unconscious to a “cellar” in which the conscious mind dumps “his own bastard spawn” (PU 204), and draws a caricature of Freud coming back from this “cavern of darkness” with “a myriad repulsive little horrors” (PU 200). Instead, Lawrence claims to believe in “the true unconscious, where our life bubbles up in us, prior to any mentality” (PU 2... |
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