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92 The early D.H.Lawrence of The White Peacock is a callow novelist, passionately observing the lyricism of nature, }Sy investigation of his ideas of sex in that period, not only through The White Peacock» but also according to many critics and biographers* leads me to the conclusion that he was a romantic puritan, a man fit to live and write in the world of the senses. From the very beginning the physical world held his attention far more than the spiritual world, and his assertion that the body's life is prior to the mindfs life follows«" This natural disposition and the peculiarities of his growing-up in a rural environment are the background of his inadequate sexual development. Moreover, in his adolescence his sexual behaviour was conditioned by two other distinct poles«»] On one side was Jessie Chambers, his first girl-friend, the woman upon whom his literary career was based, but through whom he had his first sexual frustration; on the other, there was his mother, his first actual love, the glory and disgrace behind his hardly admitted Oedipus complex, who stigmatized his sexual formation for a lifetime* These peculiar conditions, the fact that his father failed as a father and head of the family, and was a drunkard, and the continuous recurrence of a serious illness - pneumonia - (which later on became tuberculosis), were decisive factors in the formation of childhood traumas. These traumas were never accepted by Lawrence, so they remained unconscious and repressed,and could not be overcome*' These traumas produced in Lawrence what Freud calls npolymorphously perverse disposition18 in sexual behaviour, which is
93 distinguished from normal conduct and which I have traced through this work«; Lawrence
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