1st Edition

D. H. Lawrence and Psychoanalysis

By John Turner Copyright 2020
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This book opens out a wholly new field of enquiry within a familiar subject: it offers a detailed – yet eminently readable – historical investigation, of a kind never yet undertaken, of the impact of psychoanalysis (at a crucial moment of its history) on the thinking and writing of D.H. Lawrence. It considers the impact on his writing, through his relationship with Frieda Weekley, of the maverick... Read more

Chapter One: The ‘New Ethic’ of Otto Gross

Chapter Two: Sons and Lovers: Triangles of Antagonism

Chapter Three: The Rainbow: Oedipus Unbound

Chapter Four: Women in Love: Fathers and Sons

Chapter Five: Mapping the Bodily Unconscious

Chapter Six: Aaron’s Rod: Lawrence’s Studies on Hysteria

Conclusion: In Search of the True Self: Trigant Burrow and Lawrence (1925-28)

Biography

Dr John Turner was formerly Senior Lecturer in English at Swansea University. He has written a book on Wordsworth, a guide to Macbeth and co-authored two further books on Shakespeare. He has written widely on D.H. Lawrence and contributed essays on Winnicott to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is currently preparing, with Gottfried Heuer, a translation of selected works by Otto Gross.