D.H. Lawrence
Subtitle: self and sexuality
By: James C. Cowan.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Lawrence, D. H. 1885-1930 -- Knowledge -- Psychology.; Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism.; Psychoanalysis and literature -- England.; Sex (Psychology) in literature.; Psychology in literature.; Self in literature.; Sex in literature.
Description: "D.H. Lawrence: Self and Sexuality is a psychoanalytic study of D.H. Lawrence's life and writings. James Cowan relies most notably on the methods of Heinz Kohut, psychoanalytic "self psychology," and employs as well the object relation theories of D.W. Winnicott and others. This work also examines sexual issues in Lawrence's work from a literary and critical perspective, employing authoritative medical and psychoanalytic sources in human sexuality.

Lawrence's work, which was early read in traditional Freudian terms, has only recently been considered from other psychoanalytic perspectives. In this self-psychological study, Cowan provides a new and path-breaking analysis of Lawrence.".

"Turning to several problematic issues of sexuality in Lawrence, the author first discusses a number of Lawrence's sexual fallacies and personal and cultural issues. Cowan also considers contrasting idealized and negative presentations of Mellors and Sir Clifford Chatterley in Lady Chatterley's Lover, and the theme of the "loss of desire" sequence of poems in Pansies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lawrence criticism and the four psychologies of psychoanalysis; title: The two analyses of D.H. Lawrence; title: Lawrence and the sensitive man; title: Blutbrüderschaft and self psychology in Women in love; title: Lawrence, idealization, and masculine identity; title: Lawrence's sexual fallacies; title: Lawrence, Freud, and masturbation; title: "The rocking-horse winner" as self-state tale; title: The fall of John Thomas; title: Lawrence, the true self, and dying.