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82 above, it is understandable that we may feel the sense of ridicule and disgust in sex. Freud says about our animal nature: “Não devemos ensoberbecer-nos tanto, a ponto de perder completamente de vista nossa natureza animal, nem esquecer tampouco que a felicidade individual não deve ser negada peX&: civilização," (CLP 50) Lawrence would have liked what Manuel Bandeira9 one of the major Brazilian poets, says about the separateness of the body: "Deixa nossos corpos falarem e se tocarem; somente os corpos se entendem porque eles são simples, Fossas mentes são muito complicadas, portanto^ elas não podem se entenderes.”(MAJB 93) However, he would have claimed that this division of mind and body is the same as the sense of the body as a machine,, Two pages further in the book Lawrence unfolds a second stage of the same sexual act previously described, when the bodies, free of that stupid mentalization, find themselves in the "primordial tenderness” and in the "mystery of the phallus"«, The couple achieve a full orgasm together and they know the "sheer sensuality" which is only possible through what Lawrence calls "phallic consciousness"* Lawrence never realised the full power of the phallus and whenever he comes to this "sheer sensuality" there is a "strange darkness." The theme of ^darkness" seems related to his dislike for "daylight" sex or self-conscious sex. Freud might say he carries it to an extreme because it represents a temptation, "Darkness" implies an unknown and unutterable temptation for Lawrence. The phallus as a symbol is always a mystery too. Sometimes the
83 ’'darkness” is present in M s controversial passages about anality. His style becomes obscure and unclean the "darkness" is a kind» of self-censorship. It has already happened in The Rainbow and in Women in Love« In LCL at least twice Lawrence introduces characteristic scenes of anal sex, in a kind of haze, ambiguously unfolded. This is really odd in Lawrence, the contradictory preacher, who is always fighting for clarity and against secrecy » Yet if he finds anal intercourse with woman valid, why doesn't he describe it with the same words which he uses to describe the normal sexual act? We have already seen how he uses an idyllic language in his early period. But in LCL his treatment of sex is always precise and clear, down to his restoration of the four-letter words. Dealing with anality his style is obscure and he says it is necessary "to purify the body into purity with the fire of sheer sensuality".(LCL 2^8) "Sheer sen*» suality" here means to go to the last extremes of heterosexuality» R.E.Pritchard says that anal intercourse in LCL has the same meaning as in the context of Women in Love: . (it) echoes the description of Birkin before his anal intercourse with Ursulas which is what Connie is subjected to by Mellors, to restore his male supremacy*"(BOD 193) In.the first scene Mellors and Connie are "running out stark naked in the rain". He is watching her "wet back leaning forward in flight, the rounded buttocks twinkling; a wonderful cowering female nakedness in flight," and after this, he takes hold of her "tail"...: "The rain streamed on them till they smoked. He gathered her lovely, heavy posteriors one in each hand and pressed
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83<br />
’'darkness” is present in M s controversial passages about anality.<br />
His style becomes obscure and unclean the "darkness" is a kind»<br />
of self-censorship. It has already happened in The Rainbow and<br />
in Women in Love«<br />
In LCL at least twice Lawrence introduces<br />
characteristic scenes of anal sex, in a kind of haze, ambiguously<br />
unfolded. This is really odd<br />
in Lawrence, the contradictory<br />
preacher, who is always fighting for clarity and against<br />
secrecy »<br />
Yet if he finds anal intercourse with woman valid,<br />
why doesn't he describe it with the same words which he uses<br />
to describe the normal sexual act? We have already seen how he<br />
uses an idyllic language in his early period. But in LCL his<br />
treatment of sex is always precise and clear, down to his restoration<br />
of the four-letter words. Dealing with anality his style<br />
is obscure and he says it is necessary "to purify the body into<br />
purity with the fire of sheer sensuality".(LCL 2^8) "Sheer sen*»<br />
suality" here means to go to the last extremes of heterosexuality»<br />
R.E.Pritchard says that anal intercourse in LCL has the<br />
same meaning as in the context of Women in Love:<br />
. (it) echoes the description of Birkin before his anal<br />
intercourse with Ursulas which is what Connie is subjected<br />
to by Mellors, to restore his male supremacy*"(BOD 193)<br />
In.the first scene Mellors and Connie are "running out<br />
stark naked in the rain". He is watching her "wet back leaning<br />
forward in flight, the rounded buttocks twinkling; a wonderful<br />
cowering female nakedness in flight," and after this, he takes<br />
hold of her "tail"...:<br />
"The rain streamed on them till they smoked. He gathered<br />
her lovely, heavy posteriors one in each hand and pressed
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