This paper attempts to analyze Paul Morel's instinctual drives--in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (2006}---toward survival, neurotic refusal to accept life, and his will to give life meaning after a fierce and pr...This paper attempts to analyze Paul Morel's instinctual drives--in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (2006}---toward survival, neurotic refusal to accept life, and his will to give life meaning after a fierce and prolonged internal strife--in the light of psychoanalysis. It will explore how his "Id" strives to bring about the satisfaction of instinctual needs on the basis of the pleasure principle driving him to seek pleasure. His "libido"--psychic energy, emanating from the id, especially the sexual urge--has empowered his "Eros" or life instinct. It will also explore how "Thanatos" or death instinct, in contrast, has yearned for an almost lifeless state and curbed entering into human relationships as experienced in his last rejection of Miriam after his mother's death leaving a great trauma on Paul who has been on the verse of extinction as a result. Therefore, Eros and Thanatos, both coincide and conflict within him, are dynamically involved and thus are interacted infusing life not stagnation in Paulin consequence展开更多
文摘This paper attempts to analyze Paul Morel's instinctual drives--in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (2006}---toward survival, neurotic refusal to accept life, and his will to give life meaning after a fierce and prolonged internal strife--in the light of psychoanalysis. It will explore how his "Id" strives to bring about the satisfaction of instinctual needs on the basis of the pleasure principle driving him to seek pleasure. His "libido"--psychic energy, emanating from the id, especially the sexual urge--has empowered his "Eros" or life instinct. It will also explore how "Thanatos" or death instinct, in contrast, has yearned for an almost lifeless state and curbed entering into human relationships as experienced in his last rejection of Miriam after his mother's death leaving a great trauma on Paul who has been on the verse of extinction as a result. Therefore, Eros and Thanatos, both coincide and conflict within him, are dynamically involved and thus are interacted infusing life not stagnation in Paulin consequence