Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious
by D. H. Lawrence
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Written in D. H. Lawrence's most productive period, 'Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious' (1921) and 'Fantasia of the Unconscious' (1922) were undertaken initially in response to psychoanalytic criticism of his novel Sons and Lovers. They soon developed more generally to propose an alternative to what Lawrence perceived as the Freudian psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious and the incest motive. The essays also develop his ideas about the upbringing and education of children, about show more marriage, and about social and even political action. Lawrence described them as 'this pseudo-philosophy of mine which was deduced from the novels and poems, not the reverse. The absolute need one has for some sort of satisfactory mental attitude towards oneself and things in general makes one try to abstract some definite conclusions from one's experiences as a writer and as a man'. These conclusions form an illuminating guide to his works and therein lies their peculiar value. show lessTags
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Me niego a ponerle una puntuación, porque el viaje emocional que en este libro se produce - de las lágrimas, por reir, a las lágrimas por carcajada - poco tiene que ver con el propósito original de esta obra. No es ficción, si no un ensayo que intenta proporcionar una definición de subconsciente distinta, más cercana a su realidad, en contraste a la forma de entenderlo de las corrientes de psicoanálisis capitaneadas por Freud.
En resumen, que el autor de Sons and Lovers y Lady Chatterley's Lover pone a caldo a los seguidores del psicoanálisis de lalalalala entonces y plantea su propia teoría. Para partirse la caja y lo que haga falta, porque si a Freud se le fue la pinza en algunos puntos - o todos - este tiene también sus show more cositas. Aunque igualmente se entreven puntos que, pese a no estar del todo acertados en su explicación, la idea subyacente mola.
Vale, creo que me ha gustado. Pero...Que no, que no lo puntúo, leñes xD show less
En resumen, que el autor de Sons and Lovers y Lady Chatterley's Lover pone a caldo a los seguidores del psicoanálisis de lalalalala entonces y plantea su propia teoría. Para partirse la caja y lo que haga falta, porque si a Freud se le fue la pinza en algunos puntos - o todos - este tiene también sus show more cositas. Aunque igualmente se entreven puntos que, pese a no estar del todo acertados en su explicación, la idea subyacente mola.
Vale, creo que me ha gustado. Pero...Que no, que no lo puntúo, leñes xD show less
Interesting ideas of Lawrence presented not as a scholarly text but as an intuitive process written only for fellow believers and not meant to persuade or change the non-believer at all, he said.
08/24 page 222
93.0% "Tomorrow is the end."
08/20 page 200
83.0% "Quite an interesting point of view."
08/17 page 182
76.0% "David gets off the track often and doesn't give a damn. Says he is writing an essay and therefore can do what he wants. Says you don't have to read him if you don't want to."
08/12 page 150
63.0% "I do not know what to say about this. At least not yet."
08/03 page 100
42.0% "Fantasia has a silliness and humor I had not seen as yet in my other readings of Lawrence."
07/28 page 54
23.0% "Written he says via intuition I am amazed at his recall of other scholarly texts he had read prior to this work."
07/27 page 42
14.0% "An eye opener and slight surprise."
My review can be read in full here:
show more target="_top">http://mewlhouse.hubpages.com/hub/Psycho-Babble-of-DH-Lawrence show less
93.0% "Tomorrow is the end."
08/20 page 200
83.0% "Quite an interesting point of view."
08/17 page 182
76.0% "David gets off the track often and doesn't give a damn. Says he is writing an essay and therefore can do what he wants. Says you don't have to read him if you don't want to."
08/12 page 150
63.0% "I do not know what to say about this. At least not yet."
08/03 page 100
42.0% "Fantasia has a silliness and humor I had not seen as yet in my other readings of Lawrence."
07/28 page 54
23.0% "Written he says via intuition I am amazed at his recall of other scholarly texts he had read prior to this work."
07/27 page 42
14.0% "An eye opener and slight surprise."
My review can be read in full here:
show more target="_top">http://mewlhouse.hubpages.com/hub/Psycho-Babble-of-DH-Lawrence show less
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D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885. His father was a coal miner and Lawrence grew up in a mining town in England. He always hated the mines, however, and frequently used them in his writing to represent both darkness and industrialism, which he despised because he felt it was scarring the English countryside. Lawrence show more attended high school and college in Nottingham and, after graduation, became a school teacher in Croyden in 1908. Although his first two novels had been unsuccessful, he turned to writing full time when a serious illness forced him to stop teaching. Lawrence spent much of his adult life abroad in Europe, particularly Italy, where he wrote some of his most significant and most controversial novels, including Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterly's Lover. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, who had left her first husband and her children to live with him, spent several years touring Europe and also lived in New Mexico for a time. Lawrence had been a frail child, and he suffered much of his life from tuberculosis. Eventually, he retired to a sanitorium in Nice, France. He died in France in 1930, at age 44. In his relatively short life, he produced more than 50 volumes of short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel journals, and letters, in addition to the novels for which he is best known. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1921: Fantasia of the Unconscious; 1922: Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious
- First words
- Let us start by making a little apology to Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis has sprung many surprises on us, performed more than one volte-face before our indignant eyes. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But what tyranny is so hideous as that of an automatically ideal humanity?
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)For heaven's sake answer plainly, "No," if you feel like it. No Good temporizing.
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