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58 Havelock Ellis, sexologist and precursor of Freud, the author of many books on sex, (who was even prosecuted because of his works), says about obscenityj “How to define such a nebulous notion which is not in the watched thing itself but in the spirit of the observer?“ (OSM 38) Actually this question contains a good idea of obscenity: it is that “which is not in the watched thing itself but in the spirit of the observer“* And is not the observer who stands in front of the “stage"? You show a naked woman’s picture to a man and he says it is “art“, and you do the same thing to another and he says it is “immoral”. At the end of The Trial of Lady Chatterley» in Justice Byrne's summing-up there is this definition of “obscene”, drawn directly from the English lav/, to be specific, from the new Obscene Publications Act: H... an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect is, if taken as a whole, such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read the matter contained in it. 11 (TTL 227) As a matter of fact, even an obscene book tends to “deprave and corrupt“ only a person who is already likely to be corrupted. There is no obscene book after all, but there are obscene people with obscene minds. The function of literature is to explore the human heart, with all its manifestations, and the sexual act is one of man's most important manifestations. To see the sexual act as pornographic or obscene is a trait of the dirty minds of those whom Lawrence calls “grey puritans“. Lawrence is a puritan too, but of a different sort; he wants to regenerate human relationships through sex and cannot see obscenity in that. Maurice
59 Girordias, (11) famous editor and press man agrees with Lawrence, adding the point that "pornography and licentiousness are horrible ghosts which will disappear in the day of the regeneration of sex and eroticism. 11 (OSM 3*+2) The last part of A Propos of Lad?/ Chatterley's Lover is like a speech of a dying voice. Lawrence was terribly sick and died four months later, on March 2, 1930. In this essay he talks about a deeper and greater morality, which is concerned not only with persons but with all nations and mankind. One of the greatest needs is the knowledge of the dichotomy life-death. rhythm of life and death is the rhythm of reintegration in the cosmos. This is possible through a vivid relation with the universe , and this relation begins with the relationship between man and woman which, for Lawrence, is complete only in the body, through s exualLawrence, as usually, insists on his vital philosophy: The "The body's life is the life of sensations and emotions. •* ft All the emotions belong to the body, and are only recognized by the mind."(APL 93) This is really a doctrine of a religion of the Flesh. It preaches the supremacy of the body over the mind. And this is m e of the reasons why Lawrence possibly disagreed with Freud: he thought that Freud5s theories helped to mentalize sex. He believed that neurotics analysed by Freud were confirmed in their mentalizing of sex. The puritans always mentalized sex because they advocated the supremacy of the mind over the body. Lawrence^ dualism represents just an inversion of the dualistic
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Mo ï»e THESIS D. H0 IAWBENGE: SEX
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations Mbs
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vil PGB - Portrait of a Genius« Bu
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R E S U M O D« H. Lawrence fez do
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Chapter I INTRODUCTION A, A, Victor
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3 misunderstood sexual theme, is go
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5 identical reasoning: nThere can s
Page 17 and 18: 7 attitudes. In this respect, it is
Page 19 and 20: 9 rence ’s works in his book The
Page 21 and 22: Chapter II PURITANISM DEFINED Histo
Page 23 and 24: 33 The actual meaning we find in di
Page 25 and 26: 15 and lie alone right. Having run
Page 27 and 28: 17 presents the Freudian imbroglio
Page 29 and 30: 19 it is perhaps worth noticing tha
Page 31 and 32: 21 but in many other parts of the b
Page 33 and 34: or inhibited action we are tempted
Page 35 and 36: 25 And about Cyril (himself) he sai
Page 37 and 38: 27 The tall meadow-sweet was in bud
Page 39 and 40: 29 genitals. Certainly Lawrence's p
Page 41 and 42: 31 Of course, one can imagine how i
Page 43 and 44: 33 'Good Lord, Emily! But he is dea
Page 45 and 46: 35 cock just quoted in the two prev
Page 47 and 48: 37 frustrated: Mr, and Mrs. Beardsa
Page 49 and 50: 39 So far, Lawrence’s early views
Page 51 and 52: hi rainbow arch; it is the “toget
Page 53 and 54: ^3 Lawrence said in his defence: "T
Page 55 and 56: ubbing passage of The White Peacock
Page 57 and 58: eautiful."(TRB 238) Why afraid? Bec
Page 59 and 60: Chapter V LAURENCE AND PORNOGRAPHY
Page 61 and 62: 51 sions then is Freud’s theory o
Page 63 and 64: 53 male, in a negative or sundering
Page 65 and 66: 55 he directly faced the censors an
Page 67: 57 "the whole question of pornograp
Page 71 and 72: 61 secret".; Neither can be of any
Page 73 and 74: 63 by January 1928 and is now widel
Page 75 and 76: 65 So the general subject matter of
Page 77 and 78: 67 The real theme, which recurs in
Page 79 and 80: 69 built of rusticated sandstone an
Page 81 and 82: 71 who want to dominate them, Mello
Page 83 and 84: 73 question Lawrence puts to himsel
Page 85 and 86: 75 the mechanical images are deflec
Page 87 and 88: 77 lies, navels, and breasts* (It h
Page 89 and 90: 79 Maybe they are the truth some cr
Page 91 and 92: 81 heave her loins, and throw the m
Page 93 and 94: 83 ’'darkness” is present in M
Page 95 and 96: 85 11ty shook her to her foundation
Page 97 and 98: 87 some kind of ’'arrest'** In al
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Page 101 and 102: 91 in a passionate love affair and
Page 103 and 104: 93 distinguished from normal conduc
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Page 107 and 108: 97 easy to say* I think that he has
Page 109 and 110: APPENDIX NOTES 1 Title of the work
Page 111 and 112: BIBLIOGRAPHY •* Aldington^ Richar
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