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ism. But he remains as one of the first, after Jessie Chambers,
to define Lawrence's case of "sex in the head","which he built
up into a philosophy of salvation,"(PGB 310)
Jessie Chambers is certainly neither a biographer nor a
critic, but as Lawrence's first girl-friend, the heroine of his
first two novels, and the woman who launched him on his literary
career, her D»BeLawrence: A Personal Record has to be read by
those who like me want to shed more light on Lawrence's early
period - particularly his Oedipus complex, and its influence on
the plot of Sons and Lovers, As I have already said, J.Chambers
observed as early as 1935 that Lawrence was a case of "sex in the
head».(EIJ XXXIII)
Since I am going to deal largely with Ladv Chatterlev's
Lover? I find it valuable to look at C,H,Rolph's account of the
historic trial with the transcript of evidence and the speeches
of many influential people and literary minds, Lawrence's controversial
morality was tested again and Richard Eoggart even
called him a "British nonconformist Puritan"(TTL 95),
As an outstanding authority on sex and psychoanalysis, Sigmund
Freud must be considered in this work, not because of his
direct (or indirect) influence on Lawrence, but because both
Freud and Lawrence aroused their contemporaries' attention toward
sex. Although Lawrence disagreed with psychoanalysis at
many points, both had the same intent: to put sex on its right
place in human relationships. Because of this both were called
sexual fanatics. Both were cases of "sex in the head", but they
were both puritans, Freud's self-analysis, moreover, provides a
useful frame for the discussion of his literary comrade-in-arms,