A study about characters and their psychological struggle about Spirituality in Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Keywords:
psychological, SpiritualityAbstract
Sons and Lovers is one of the most powerful psychological novels of the Twentieth century-intensely autobiographical. When it first appeared in 1913, it was immediately recognized that Lawrence knowingly or unknowingly, was influenced by the term ‘Oedipus Complex’ coined by the Austrian Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Lawrence depicts his own psychic traumas through the character of the protagonist, Paul Morel who suffers due to his mother’s domination over his soul and his inability to find a way out of his struggle between the all-consuming spiritual nature of possessive love and sexual attraction that makes Sons and Lovers one of Lawrence’s memorable work of written art. It speaks of a strange triangular love tension between Paul-Miriam-Clara relationships that turns out to be hopeless and futile.
References
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence with an introduction by John Gross- Bantam Classic published by Bantam Dell- A Division of Random House, Inc. (New York-1985) (S & L)
D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers: A Casebook Edited by John Worthier and Andrew Harrison- Oxford University Press in New York (2005)
Oedipus Complex- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Oedipus
Article on ‘Sons and Lovers: a century on’ by Blake Morrison in ‘The Guardian’ published in May 2013
Blog on ‘Sons and Lovers: Paul’s relationships’ in The Door of Perception-February 2, 2012
The Function of ‘Nature’ in D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers by Yasushi Morita published as a Thesis abstract for Graduate Degrees in Ryukoku University 2005 142
