Lawrence's Sons and Lovers And the Oedipus complex [Abstract]: On D.H. ... Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, considered by many a classic example of a novel about the Oedipus complex; Lawrence himself claimed not to have read Freud2, and dismissed the theory of complexes as "vicious half-statements of the Freudians"3, but his wife Frieda was greatly interested in psychoanalysis and claimed that they discussed Freud's theories together. " Sons and Lovers should have appeared just as Freud's theories were beginning to become widely known in the English-speaking world. No other ...

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With his mother of critical importance, Lawrence uses Freud's Oedipus complex, creating many analyses for critics. ... Paul's compromising situations with Miram Leivers and Clara Dawes, as well as the death of his mother, display the Oedipus complex throughout Sons and Lovers. ... Paul's maternal relationship defines the Oedipus complex. ... Again Lawrence displays the Oedipus complex through Paul to his mother, "And I shall never meet the right woman as long as you live" (341). ... Sons and Lovers was written with Lawrence almost defining the Oedipus complex through Pau...

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With three texts spanning over four centuries, not only does the style of writing change, but the presentation of relationships becomes arguably more realistic. In terms of love, it is arguable that all three texts; "Hamlet," "Sons and Lovers," and "A Streetcar Named Desire," present it as a destruc...

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