Title: D.H. Lawrence and the paradoxes of psychic life
First published: 1999
Description: "Contributing to the debate about D. H. Lawrence's relationship with and fictional portrayal of women, this book discusses how the dynamic tensions of his art dramatically reenact the competing forces of psychic and relational life. In her examination of Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and various short stories, Schapiro discusses how Lawrence's best works reveal a continual struggle to recognize and be recognized by the other as an independent subject.

Drawing on Jessica Benjamin's psychoanalytic theory of intersubjectivity, she also demonstrates how a breakdown of balanced subject-subject relations in his texts gives rise to defensive polarities of gender and of domination and submission."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: English Psychological fiction, History and criticism, Knowledge, Psychoanalysis and literature, Psychological fiction, English, Psychology, Psychology in literature, Lawrence, d. h. (david herbert), 1885-1930, English literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Et la psychologie, Psychanalyse et litterature, Histoire, Roman psychologique anglais, Histoire et critique, Psychologie dans la litterature, Knowledge and learning, History
Places: England
People: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
LC classification: PR6023.A93 Z8653 1999