Lawrence's Radical Dualism
The Bodily Unconscious
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8862799 |
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| Authors | Thalia Trigoni (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 302-321 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0013838x.2014.897088 |
| OpenAlex | W2041353564 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article seeks to establish that, according to Lawrence, human nature is a conjunction of two distinct cognitive components: the mental and the bodily, each of which is capable of performing complicated reasoning processes. Integral to this view is his notion of the bodily unconscious, which he conceived of as an autonomous and intelligent thinking agent. Lawrence developed this theory as a reaction against the Freudian formulation of the unconscious and the increasing tendency in contemporary scientific thought to mechanise the body and its cognitive processes. Bringing Lawrence's own theory of the unconscious to the centre of our attention will offer us a better understanding of Lawrence as a theorist and literary writer, opening new vistas of thought against which to reassess his literary output
Cognition · Cognitive science · Collective unconscious · Dualism · Epistemology · Freudian slip · Personal unconscious · Psychoanalysis · Unconscious mind · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Samuel Beckett and Modernism · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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