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presented a significant change or advancement in his theories or
doctrines, especially in relation to sex.
The two other critical essays, Psychoanalysisy written in
1921, and Fantasia, written in 1922, although belonging to his
middle period, are worth considering in the investigation of his
doctrine of sex.
Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious is not a long essay -
some 50 pages - about Lawrence's tentative incursion into the a-
rea of the unconscious, this ’'nebulous part of our mind11. It contains
Lawrence's own estimate of the roles of the conscious and
the unconscious and, incidentally, his arguments against Freud
and Psychoanalysis.
Lawrence begins the essay in a mixture of fear of psychoanalysis
and rage.against Freud. He talks about na sinister
look11 in psychoanalysis which he calls the "Freud look".
This
"Freud look" he fears, is a look into the unconscious part of the
mind, where all mental diseases and complexes reside. Unaware of
Freud's research, Lawrence was yet reaching parallel conclusions,
although not scientifically like Freud, but as a writer and an
artist. At the time he wrote PsychoanalysisT Lawrence was still
one of those who (as Freud said) wanted to throw stones at him,
though later on, one might observe, many people wanted to throw
stones at Lawrence too. Both writers committed the same "crime"s
talking about sex openly. Gershon Legman, quoted by Irving Wallace
in The Seven Minutesf says:
"Murder is a crime. To describe a murder is not. Sex is
not crime. To describe sex is." (OSM 518)
In fact, in this essay Lawrence does not accuse the "Freud
look" of pan-sexualism. What really occupies Lawrence's discus­