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but in many other parts of the body which yields analogous
pleasurable sensations, playing thereby the part of genital
organs. 11 (GIP 219)
Mere traces of these impulses are found in children, but they
can manifest themselves in later life and even suppress normal
sexuality.
This raises the question of a Freudian "analysis*1 in The
White Peacock.
My work does not follow a full Freudian "approach"
of Lawrence, which so far has already been indicated by
many critics like Mark Spilka, Daniel Weiss, R.E.Pritchard, D.:
Cavitch, and F.J. Hoffmann. But I think that Freudian "assertions"
can always be suggested for the interpretation of Lawrence’s
works, who was, from the very beginning, unconsciously Freudian.
The White Peacock contains more of Lawrence’s early life
than the directly autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers or any
other work. He wrote the first draft of his first novel in 1906
(published in 1911) under Jessie Chambers* influence and encouragement.
He was a youth of 21 and she was 20. This novel is '
partly autobiographical too and Jessie herself said; "Cyril and
Lettie (characters in the novel) are each aspects of Lawrence,
with Emily (herself) as a foil to both."(ETJ 118)
Although F.R.Leavis says that it "is painfully callow",
(FRL 19) The White Peacock is full of descriptive details.
It reveals the country landscape seen by a country man who loved
it passionately. It describes the rural environment of his youth
where Lawrence constantly rediscovered the green hills and woods
around his birthplace, Eastwood (Nethermere in the novel), and
where he thought he could still erase the vision of the signs of
industrialism in the pits.