Maladjustment In Sons And Lovers

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Sons and Lovers is the first major psychoanalytical novel of the twentieth century which heralded the advent of new frankness in modern literature. It deals with the psycho dynamical study of the tangled relations between men and women —one of the most serious problems of the modern age. The Freudian nature of the novel and the fact that it had its roots in the personal experience of D.H. Lawrence give an added interest. It also offers an inside view of the life of the industrial working class in England and the repercussions of industrialization and urbanization on the unconscious of those people. As in the twentieth century stress was on what person thinks and feels, so the novel also talks of the psychological motives behind human action. The novel …show more content…

It means manifestation of infantile sexuality in the relation of the child to its parent of the opposite sex. It is a state in which a person shows excessive affection for the parent opposite in sex to him or her and a corresponding hatred for his or her other parent. Sons and Lovers study the injurious psychological effects on her children of the love of an over-possessive and dominating mother. According to Freud, "a mother through kissing and petting the child becomes its first 'seducer ' and in this relation lies the root of a mother 's importance for a whole life time, as the first and strongest love object and as the prototype of all later love relations". According to Graham Hough, "Sons and Lovers is indeed the first Freudian novel in English". Lawrence explains that an exaggerated and intense parental love leads to a painfully false relation between parents and children. By establishing a dynamic relation with the child on the second plane of consciousness, the parents - because of their monomania for love and more love - do "what is vicious for any parent to

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