Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
A complex and compelling variation of the archetypal Oedipal complex, embodied in unorthodox, vigorous, and symbolic linguistic expression, Lawrence's work envelops the reader in a Promethean, didactic, life-affirming embrace of vitalism. The work involves a peculiar fusion and mirroring of souls, an intense and prolonged struggle with the self on the part of the character of Paul Morel, and an emergence the self or rebirth of the psyche. Within this tapestry, Lawrence has woven intricate threads of his philosophy of vitalism and blood-consciousness, utilizing universal, primordial archetypes which resound mnemonically in the psyche of the reader, urging humanity to embrace the mystical, universal, creative force of life, to repel the externalities of convention and repression, and to yearn and struggle to be alive.
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