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Though criticized for the apparently eccentric ideas quite different from those of Western scientific minds, D. H. Lawrence’s two psychological books, Psychology and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious, remain central to understanding psychology in general as well as the novelist’s ethics and philosophy of life. For Lawrence, the unconscious of Freudian psychoanalysis has no positive meaning because the whole body of our repressions makes up our unconscious; it all along the line fails to determine the nature of the pristine unconscious in man. He points out that the incest motive is just a logical deduction of the human reason, which has recourse to this last extremity to save itself. Rather, the true unconscious is the spontaneous life-motive in every single living creature. It is underivable and inconceivable as a general thing or a mathematical unit because it exists only in living creatures. Furthermore, the baby’s first consciousness develops not from the brain, but from the solar plexus in the belly, which indicates the psychical to Lawrence is inseparable from the physical in its nature. In Anti-Oedipus published in 1972, Gille Deleuze and Félix Gattari find in Lawrence the poignant critic of Freudian psychoanalysis. They argue that Oedipus is not a real repressing representative, but a factitious product of the displaced psychic repression. So the desiring-machine, which is neither the living nor the machine, can escape the Oedipal codes which force the individuals to adjust to a unified whole. Also, “the body without organs” can provide the way out of the psychological framework of capitalism by preferring differences over uniformity, flows over unities, and the nomadic over the sedentary. However, having little regard for the life that is only in the living individuals, they ultimately fail to escape the idealistic nature of Western philosophy and determine the nature of true unconscious.
