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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