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Lawrence extols solitude in his later poems. Mostly solitude gives him the sense of happiness and rootedness. He calls it “pure aloneness.” Even the time when being alone is difficult, he still recommends being alone in pain. The changes from being alone in pain to pure aloneness result from psychological changes from the ego to the Self, the final fruit of individuation in Jungian term. He realizes mistakes and evils in his life and repents in difficult times of being alone. It means to bring his negative unconscious persona, projection, and shadow to his consciousness. This is the first self awareness or enlargement of consciousness. He feels himself as nothing. After the death of the ego, the second enlargement of consciousness is necessary for the complete realization of pure aloneness, the Self. It means to bring curbed positive collective unconsciousness (“blood consciousness”) to consciousness (“brain consciousness”). Collective unconsciousness can transfuse life force, creativity and other positive power to machine like pale mind. Through the complicated tension and balance of consciousness and unconsciousness, we can have whole, deeper, enlarged consciousness, approaching the realization of the Self.