D. H. Lawrence
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D. H. Lawrence believed profoundly in the fallen state of humanity. This fall had taken place, however, not as the result of a single sin or in the dim and distant past but in recent times. Lawrence held that the Industrial Revolution had begun a process of alienation of the individual from the whole spectrum of Being and from others. By the twentieth century 'man', as Lawrence referred to humanity, had finally alienated himself from himself as well. This notion of the fall of humanity centered around Lawrence's concept of the unconscious which, like Freud, he saw as lying below ordinary consciousness but, contra Freud, did not see as a repository of the individual's past experience. Instead he conceived of the unconscious as something very like the soul, a term he would have preferred had it not been "vitiated by the idealistic use" (Psychoanalysis 215). While Lawrence agreed with Freud that human motivity did indeed arise from the unconscious he rejected the "sack of horrors", the repressed material in the unconscious, that Freud held to be the source of motivity (Psychoanalysis 207). He held instead that the unconscious was, as his friend Murry put it, "the primordial principle of life [which] is manifested only in individuality" (179). But if the unconscious was the source of energy from which all life springs it was the disconnection of humanity from this source of energy and motivity that was the source of the problem of alienation that so severely afflicted th
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rned affective responses" that precede the actual introduction of the deadly ideas in education (Hochman 141). He refers to this affective aspect as the love-mode and this mode, and the way it operates in society, is one of the fundamental mechanisms of the 'fall'.
As Hochman points out, Lawrence never really achieves "an adequate theory of why things have gone the way they have gone--that is . . . he cannot explain how the love mode has come to dominate and to generate hatred and disease" but he does succeed in describing many of the symptomatic traits of this malaise and in doing so manages to "define the problem and the grounds on which it might be tackled" (145). Lawrence's view of the role of the love-ideal in this context is of special importance in understanding the way these ideas evolved in the two Brangwen novels. Lawrence treated the term 'love' in several different ways that relate to whether he was discussing familial and sexual love, the love of others, or communal love. But each of these uses is germane to the discussion of the love ideal as it is presented in Fantasia of the Unconscious.
Lawrence deals first with the nature of the ideal of love that is implanted in children by their parents, that results, a
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