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D.H. Lawrence's Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective explores how literature thinks; more specifically, how the reading of fiction influences behavior. Lawrence writes passionately about our alienation from ourselves, from other people, and from the cosmos. He believes that we need to heed the voices of our unconscious, and he shows us how to meld body and mind so that, psychoanalytically speaking, Id and Ego can come together. In this endeavor there is a salient convergence between Lawrence's writings and those of Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst.
In this book, Stoltzfus examines the poetics of seven major fictions that Lawrence wrote between 1925 and 1930, five productive years that are referred to as his fabulation period. In each of the book's seven chapters, in tandem with Lacan's writings, Stoltzfus analyzes seven major characters, four of whom move from alienation to the renewal of self and the cosmos. He argues that Lawrence's fiction is simultaneously descriptive and prescriptive by showing us how to circumvent dysfunction. Stoltzfus brings literature and psychoanalysis together in readings that are both aesthetic and epistemological. They are recipes for curing the Anthropocene.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Additional Parenthetical References
Introduction: A Prelude: Cultural Dysfunction
Chapter One: "Sun:" Writing the Iceberg with Lawrence and Hemingway
Chapter Two: The Woman Who Rode Away: Madness and Cosmic Sanity
Chapter Three: "None of That:" Lawrence and Hemingway at the Bullfights with Ethel and Brett
Chapter Four: "The Rocking-Horse Winner:" Pleasing the Mother
Chapter Five: "The Man Who Loved Islands:" A Return to the Womb
Chapter Six: "Glad Ghosts:" The Cure—Cutting Through the Tangle
Chapter Seven: The Escaped Cock: Salvation
Conclusion
References
About the Author
Index
