Through Lawrence's description of the Morel family, the reader is given a tour through the psychological evolution of the main character, Paul. ... 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 begi...

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