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It would, be more logical to the scientist to discuss the
physical side of the question. But it happens that the scientist
in this case is a psychoanalyst, who is more interested in
the psychic part, and it is Lawrence, the artist, who is trying
to discuss the physical side. However, I can understand this
tendency, for it is in accordance with his vital philosophy, his
physical universe, his "world of the senses", and his idea that
’blood is basic". So it is interesting to notice that Lawrence
in his middle essays took up the ostensible methods and terminology
of science in order to refute the scientists*
Fantasia of the Unconscious is a continuation of Psychoanalysis
and the Unconscious.
The central ideas are the quarrels
with Freud and the theories on sex and the unconscious. Also,
there is much good sense on such subjects as human relationships,
education, and the right and wrong manifestations of love, for
Lawrence often a counterfeit emotion. How Lawrence accuses Freud
of pan-sexualism, i.e., he implies that for Freud sex is everything
and everything is sex. He says of the Freudian sexual theories:
"The real clue is sex. A sexual motive is to be attributed to
all human activity."(FTU 17)
But Freud always defended himself against this accusation
throughout his works. He even says: "At the bottom society's
motive is economic." (G-IP 321) And elsewhere he affirms that
"the sexual instinct is not the only basis of all manifestations
of the psychic activity, but the most important."
(CPA 200)
For the puritan Lawrence, (since all is not sex):
"Sex means the being divided into male and female, and the
magnetic desire or impulse which puts male apart from fe­