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D. H. Lawrence The Thinker as Poet Fiona Becket D. H. LAWRENCE: THE THINKER AS POET This page intentionally left blank D. H. Lawrence The Thinker as Poet Fiona Becket Lecturer in Literature, Staffordshire University fA M First published in Great Britain 1997 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0-333-65027-1 First published in the United States of America 1997 by & ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 0-312-17503-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Becket, Fiona, 1962- D. H. Lawrence : the thinker as poet / Fiona Becket. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-312-17503-5 1. Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930—Knowledge- -Psychology. 2. Psychoanalysis and literature—England- -History—20th century. 3. Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930—Aesthetics. 4. Subconsciousness in literature. 5. Body, Human, in literature. 6. Metaphor. I. Title. PR6023.A93Z5665 1997 823'.912—dc21 97-5826 CIP ©Fiona Becket 1997 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 Printed in Great Britain by The Ipswich Book Company Ltd Ipswich, Suffolk For Deirdre Becket and Jon Salway This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix 1 Introduction: Thinking Metaphorically 1 2 Thinking Poetically in the Early Discursive Writing: The Birth of the Self 10 3 The Sensual Body in Lawrence's Early Discursive Writing 28 The charm of a new phrase' 30 In the forests of the night 36 'The flesh conscious and unconscious' 40 4 Language and the Unconscious: The Radical Metaphoricity of Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious I 46 Figuring Freud 48 Anti-Oedipal 63 Metaphor and 'metaphysic' in Lawrence's books on the unconscious 67 5 Language and the Unconscious: The Radical Metaphoricity of Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious II 87 Dismantling the body/psyche model 87 Dream 96 Concluding remarks: language and the unconscious 114 6 Undulating Styles: The Rainbow 117 Language as metaphor 127 Language and the individual 140 vii Vlll Contents 7 The Tension of Opposites': The Oxymoronic Mode of Women in Love 145 The simultaneity of styles in Women in Love 148 'Love' 158 Oxymoron: 'the tension of opposites' 173 Conclusion 185 8 'Forbidden Metaphors': Lawrence and Language 190 Notes 204 Bibliography 218 Index 233 Acknowledgements The author gratefully acknowledges Laurence PoUinger Ltd and the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli for permission to quote from the Penguin editions of Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious, and the Cambridge University Press editions of The Rainbow and Women in Love, as well as the poem, The Rainbow', from D.H. Lawrence: The Complete Poems (Penguin). I am also grateful to Ginette Katz-Roy for permission to draw on material first published in my '"Star-equilibrium" and the Language of Love in Women in Love', in Etudes Lawrenciennes, no. 11 (1995). Many people were involved in the debates that have led to this book. In particular I would like to thank Michael Bell, whose suggestions helped the study to take shape in its earliest stages, and Michael Black, who very generously read drafts of the book, and whose comments were invaluable. My thanks must also extend to Howard Booth, Gerry Carlin, Athena Economides, Graham Rees and Frank Wilson for their help in many different ways, and to Charmian Hearne at Macmillan for her support of this project, and for seeing it through to book form. Special thanks are overdue to Deirdre Becket, as they are to Jon Salway for his time and much else. IX
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