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above, it is understandable that we may feel the sense of ridicule<br />
and disgust in sex. Freud says about our animal nature:<br />
“Não devemos ensoberbecer-nos tanto, a ponto de perder completamente<br />
de vista nossa natureza animal, nem esquecer<br />
tampouco que a felicidade individual não deve ser negada<br />
peX&: civilização," (CLP 50)<br />
Lawrence would have liked what Manuel Bandeira9 one of the<br />
major Brazilian poets, says about the separateness of the body:<br />
"Deixa nossos corpos falarem<br />
e se tocarem;<br />
somente os corpos se entendem<br />
porque eles são simples,<br />
Fossas mentes são muito complicadas,<br />
portanto^ elas não podem se entenderes.”(MAJB 93)<br />
However, he would have claimed that this division of mind and body<br />
is the same as the sense of the body as a machine,,<br />
Two pages further in the book Lawrence unfolds a second<br />
stage of the same sexual act previously described, when the bodies,<br />
free of that stupid mentalization, find themselves in the<br />
"primordial tenderness” and in the "mystery of the phallus"«, The<br />
couple achieve a full orgasm together and they know the "sheer<br />
sensuality" which is only possible through what Lawrence calls<br />
"phallic consciousness"*<br />
Lawrence never realised the full power of the phallus and<br />
whenever he comes to this "sheer sensuality" there is a "strange<br />
darkness." The theme of ^darkness" seems related to his dislike<br />
for "daylight" sex or self-conscious sex. Freud might say he carries<br />
it to an extreme because it represents a temptation, "Darkness"<br />
implies an unknown and unutterable temptation for Lawrence.<br />
The phallus as a symbol is always a mystery too. Sometimes the