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16 The name "Lady Crystabel11 probably derives from Coleridge’s
unfinished poem ’Chris tabel" whose heroine is bitten by a
"lamia" or snake-woman in a quasi-lesbian encounter«. Thus?
Christabel becomes herself a kind of vampire. The -undertone
of perversion in this allusion seems clear.
17 Since an authorized German edition of Freud’s works is not
available, 1 used different editions in English, Spanish,and
Portuguese; the last one (as it can be seen in the following
bibliography) is the standard edition translated directly from
James Strachey’s English edition«’
18 Lawrence. Jovce and Powys. Essays in Criticism, p. 11; quoted
by H.MeDaleski3 op.cit., p. 305. ■
19 The Concise Oxford Dictionary, 5th* ed., Oxford, 1966.
20 In the following alphabetical order I am referring to pages in
this thesis. «
21 Although we cannot talk about incestuous sexual acts in Lawrence
{s own case.
22 Both Lawrence and Freud were "vitalistic" thinkers, that is,
they were influenced by a stream of thought which began with
Nietzsche and Schopenhauers called '’vitalism” and was later
on developed by Bergson in his Jalan Vital, This doctrine is
based on Nietzsche's dictum *’God is dead” and preaches that
life originates from a vital principle distinct from chemical
and other physical forces.
23 This is from one of his last letters, quoted from The Collected
Letters of P. 5.Lawrence« edited by H.T.Moore, Heinemann, 1962,
vol. II, p. 726.