On D. H. Lawrence's Sons and L

The critics agree Lawrence wrote an amazing novel, especially through his use of the human psyche and realistic experience. .
             A characteristic case is that of 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 important English novel seems to offer quite such a stark illustration of an 'Oedipus complex' "4 .
             What is "Oedipus complex"5? In psychoanalytic theory, it is a son unconscious sexual love for his mother and his subsequent hostility and jealousy toward his father. A similar attraction of a daughter to her father and rivalry with her mother; more specifically called the Electra complex. The Oedipus complex is seen through out the book, Sons and Lovers. Mrs. Morel is sexuality repressed woman and figuratively takes her two eldest sons as her lovers. Figuratively, not literally. Mrs. Morel is the driving force in her sons' lives, until the eldest one dies and then she is the main thing in the second son, Paul. If one has read the book, one may have noticed that Paul has a difficult time with relationships, that because subconsciously he is too wrapped up in his own mother. The Oedipus complex is a complex when a man loves his mother, and hates his father because of his strong love of his mother. Paul has that and if one reads closely they even have odd sexual scenes like when Paul kisses his mother's neck and she holds him tight, or when he is sick and he can only sleep comfortably when lying in the bed grasping at his mother for comfort.