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idea of blutbrUderschaft plays an important role, (exactly as it
did in his private life) but I think it is of secondary importance,
f* in the transference of the part played by the genital
organs to other organs or different areas of the body. Through
all his novels we find many passages of sado-masochistic flavour,
in The White Peacock, for example, as I noted on pages 32-33*
These systematic observations, based on a literary criticism
which holds it impossible to separate Lawrence the writer from
Lawrence the man, must be joined to the idea that the author has
changed between The White Peacock and Lady Chatterley’s Lover«,
although traces of his “polymorphously perverse disposition'* remain
in the latter.
From this Freudian point of view, Lawrence *s sexuality is
somewhat perverse in its development, but that is to say it is
'‘normally" neurotic, as Freud himself would say«' As artist, Lawrence
overcomes this difficulty through sublimation® But since
the negative of perversion is neurosis, again according to Freud,
and Lawrence is not a complete neurotic, he must really be a gifted
artist, for the gifted artist is the result of a balanced combination
of efficiency, perversion, and neurosis.
Certainly Lawrence’s deviation from normal sexuality was
mainly due to the long mother-“son love-attachment. Because of
-this there is an incompleteness in his sex doctrine» Certainly
he is almost always positively emphasizing his “perversions'*, but
he says very little about the instinct of procreation, the final
biological reason for sex»
R.Aldington regards Lawrence’s changes and phases as re­