Fantasia of the Unconscious D H Lawrence 9781542711739 Books
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I am not a proper archaeologist nor an anthropologist nor an ethnologist. I am no "scholar" of any sort. But I am very grateful to scholars for their sound work. I have found hints, suggestions for what I say here in all kinds of scholarly books, from the Yoga and Plato and St. John the Evangel and the early Greek philosophers like Herakleitos down to Fraser and his "Golden Bough," and even Freud and Frobenius. Even then I only remember hints--and I proceed by intuition. This leaves you quite free to dismiss the whole wordy mass of revolting nonsense, without a qualm.
Fantasia of the Unconscious D H Lawrence 9781542711739 Books
Briefly stated this long essay is nothing but poetic exaggerations being passed for revelations. There are a few passages or lines of interesting thought and insight but it is some of the others that are jaw dropping in their total lack of progressive thinking. What he writes about women and the education of children is utterly ridiculous and that male and female children ought to kept separate during early development years is downright primitive and laughable. It was a bit of a struggle to get thru this. It is not even a hundred pages long but it can be a task. I doubt I'd ever read it again.Product details
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Fantasia of the Unconscious D H Lawrence 9781542711739 Books Reviews
Do not go into this expecting to get something out of it, political, scientific, or otherwise.
This book is a poem, immense, winding, dazzling, exasperating. Like Poe's "Eureka!", this book is subversive. It dangles the pretty psycho-physics or plexuses and ganglions only to keep your monkey mind distracted, so that he may trick your body, your blood, and your soul into seeing the beauty that the mind kills with its egoism and idealism.
The digressions are the clue to the whole "We still have in us the power to discriminate between our own idealism, our own self-conscious will, and that other reality, our own true spontaneous self. Certainly we are so overloaded and diseased with ideas that we can't get well in a minute. But we can set our faces stubbornly against the disease, once we recognize it."
"It is the hour of the stranger. Let the stranger now enter the soul."
"To be alone with one's own soul. Not to be alone without my own soul, mind you. But to be alone with one's own soul! This, and the joy of it, is the real goal of love. My own soul, and myself. Not my ego, my conceit of myself. But my very soul. To be at one in my own self. Not to be questing any more. Not to be yearning, seeking, hoping, desiring, aspiring. But to pause, and be alone."
To be alone. To face the facts of reality and your own eternal ignorance. This is what Lawrence suggests you do. Be curious at your own risk.
A brief attempt, a necessary failure Lawrence here points, again and again, to the quick and marrow of life, to that thing that simply persists in existence, that thing that all words fail to grasp, that thing that pushes out and reaches beyond idealism, that thing that is always here, always now, that constant thing, that beautiful, terrifying soul that huddles in a pretend fear among the mass of men--"I am I, the clue to the whole."
This book is a hearty soup, but beware within lies a most unique and devastating poison. If you're lucky, and you manage to get through it all, you walk away bewildered but sure of a certain, incomprehensible glimmering... All the while, inside, pulsing within your blood, the poison acts. Eventually, if you're lucky, you'll find yourself strangely hollowed out, every cell devoured and transformed.
If you're interested in unanswerable questions, in life, in trees and babies and mamas and papas, come take a look. Maybe you'll see some light through those tight-squeezed lids.
I could not get through this book especially as a woman. This man was telling how every one ought to be treated as genders and all. It's suffocating.
Lawrence may have claim to be a great novelist (though I don't know whether his greatest claim is SON AND LOVERS or WOMEN IN LOVE, but I personally prefer the former), but as a "thinker", he's on the level of Henry Miller (one of his most ardent followers), Tolstoy at his worst, and a misogynist he outdoes Montherlant.
Why he held an entire generation of "serious" readers captive through his "philosophy" is an enigma to me.
Walt Whitman, a homosexual, is more to be trusted than Lawrence, a soi-disant capital-H heter, when it comes to "cosmic consciousness" and more mundane matters like love between individuals.
Why F.R. Leavis thought Lawrence was the most gifted writer of the 20th century is the apex of the perverse.
But do read SONS AND LOVERS if you want a Lawrence more than worth the effort.
I so regret not reaching for this book before having my children or while they were still babies. I'm trying to understand the one star reviews as the views exposed here are extreme and fantastic, but I'd say extreme to the point where you can label them fascists and discard them (to your loss obviously) or extreme to the point where you can hold them up against your own ideas and use them as contrast agents, the type of agent used in CT scans to better reveal a cancer, to visually enhance a brain tumor. At least this is how I read this and I am shocked by what I've done and where we've got in "good faith"...
I love all his essays (Reflections on the Death of the Porcupine) but this is so much more, goes beyond being daring and mesmerizing, it is an orb gem that we've got.
Briefly stated this long essay is nothing but poetic exaggerations being passed for revelations. There are a few passages or lines of interesting thought and insight but it is some of the others that are jaw dropping in their total lack of progressive thinking. What he writes about women and the education of children is utterly ridiculous and that male and female children ought to kept separate during early development years is downright primitive and laughable. It was a bit of a struggle to get thru this. It is not even a hundred pages long but it can be a task. I doubt I'd ever read it again.
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