‘The great relationship, for humanity, will always be the relation between man and woman”: Evolutionary Considerations of D. H. Lawrence.”
In the opening paragraph of “First Glimmerings of Mind,” Chapter VI of Fantasia of the Unconscious, Lawrence writes: “The final aim is not to know, but to be. There never was a more risky motto than that: Know thyself. You’ve got to know yourself as far as possible. But not just for the sake of kno...
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Études Lawrenciennes
2019
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| Zusammenfassung: | In the opening paragraph of “First Glimmerings of Mind,” Chapter VI of Fantasia of the Unconscious, Lawrence writes: “The final aim is not to know, but to be. There never was a more risky motto than that: Know thyself. You’ve got to know yourself as far as possible. But not just for the sake of knowing. You’ve got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. ‘Be Yourself’ is the last motto” (FU 105).This is surely one of the pithiest summations of Lawrence’s “philosophy” as one coul... |
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