Collection: A Submission Series Story Collection

✍ Scribed by Reiss, CD

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 109 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Lawrence and this (female psychoanalytic) reader -- Lawrence and psychoanalytic relational theories -- Intersubjectivity -- Intersubjectivity, gender, and domination: Jessica Benjamin's theory -- Lawrence's biography -- Previous psychoanalytic criticism of Lawrence -- An intersubjective approach to Lawrence: polarities and paradoxes -- Sons and lovers -- Gertrude and Paul: the depressed mother and the dependent child -- Miriam and Paul: self-mistrust and the failure of otherness -- Clara and Paul: depersonalization and the psyche/soma split -- Walter, Baxter, and Paul: the rejected father and the need for recognition -- Paul: the maternal heritage -- The short stories -- "New Eve and old Adam," "Odour of chrysanthemums," "The shadow in the rose garden," "Sun": mutual recognition and the bodily self -- "The Prussian officer," "The blind man," "The princess," "The woman who rode away": intersubjective collapse and the domination-submission polarity -- "The horse-dealer's daughter": confronting shame and the struggle to love -- The rainbow -- Tom and Lydia: sustaining the maternal identification and the development of faith -- Anna and Will: deficiency, shame, and the will to dominate -- Ursula and others: intersubjectivity and the quest for authenticity -- Women in love -- Gerald and Gudrun: the sadomasochistic scenario -- Birkin and Gerald: seeking the narcissistic ideal -- Birkin and Ursula: maintaining the vital tension.