Freud and Lawrence: Thoughts on War and Instinct

This paper is an addendum to that given last year at the University of Nanterre conference on Lawrence and Freud. On that occasion I outlined the radical difference between these two writers' views on the instinctual nature of human beings: Freud's belief in the need for instinctual repre...

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Главный автор: Bell, Michael
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Опубликовано: Études Lawrenciennes 2015
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Итог:This paper is an addendum to that given last year at the University of Nanterre conference on Lawrence and Freud. On that occasion I outlined the radical difference between these two writers' views on the instinctual nature of human beings: Freud's belief in the need for instinctual repression as opposed to Lawrence's, and Nietzsche's, more positive commitment to spontaneity. I thought the topic worth airing because, although it represents an opposition that runs through much modern literatu...