Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious Book

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS By the same Author The Lost Girl Women in Love Aarons Rod The Ladybird Kangaroo Sea and Sardinia New Poeflns Birds, Beasts and Flowers PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS BY D. H. LAWRENCE LONDON MARTIN SECKER KUMBEB FIVE JOHN STEEET AD2B PHI CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I PSYCHOANALYSIS vs. MORALITY 9 II THE INCEST MOTIVE AND IDEALISM 27 III THE BIETH OF CONSCIOUSNESS 47 IV THE CHILD AND His MOTHER 67 V THE LOVER AND THE BELOVED 87 VI HUMAN RELATIONS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS 108 PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS CHAPTER I PSYCHOANALYSIS VS. MORALITY PSYCHOANALYSIS has sprung many --surprises on us, performed more than one volte-face before our indignant eyes. No sooner had we got used to the psychi atric quack who vehemently demonstrated the serpent of sex coiled round the root of all our actions, no sooner had we begun to feel honestly uneasy about our lurking complexes, than lo and behold the psycho analytic gentleman reappeared on the stage with a theory of pure psychology. The medical faculty, which was on hot bricks over the therapeutic innovations, heaved a sigh of relief as it watched the ground warming under the feet of the professional psychologists. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS This, however, was not the end. The ears of the ethnologist began to tingle, the philosopher felt his gorge rise, and at last the moralist knew he must rush in. By this time psychoanalysis had be come a public danger. The mob was on the alert. The Edipus complex was a household word, the incest motive a commonplace of tea-table chat. Amateur analyses became the vogue. Wait till youve been analysed, said one man to another, with varying intonation. A sinister look came into the eyes of the initiates the famous, or infamous, Freud look. You could recognize it everywhere, wherever you went. Psychoanalysts know what the end will be. They have crept in among us as healers and physicians growing bolder, they have asserted their authority as 10 PSYCHOANALYSIS VS. MORALITY scientists two more minutes and they will apj ear as apostles. Have we not seen and heard the ex cathedrd Jung And does it need a prophet to discern that Freud is on the brink of a Weltan schauung or at least a Menschenschauung, which is a much more risky affair What detains him Two things. First and foremost, the moral issue. And next, but more vital, he cant get down to the rock on which he must build his church. Let us look to ourselves. This new doctrine it will be called no less has been subtly and insidiously suggested to us, gradually inoculated into us. It is true that doctors are the priests, nay worse, the medicine-men of our decadent society Psychoanalysis has made the most - of the opportunity. First and foremost the issue is a moral iiRead More