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In the present paper on "The Christening" an outline of man's quest for rebirth and his father figure with its parallels like Jung's quest for individuation, Campbell's adventures of the hero, and Frye's romance journey is traced as an attempt at a deepened understanding of D. H. Lawrencg's view of the unconscious, "the well-head, the formation of real motivity. "The unconscious, " the tremendous unknown forces of life" is represented in Lawrence, however, in the father figure, which is predominant in this story of rebirth and bastardy. In Lawrence's fictional treatment of a real life incidentbirth of a bastard child some remarkable Lawrentian thematic features emerges, the paper points out, as follows: (1) a jeer at a conventional morality(2) caricature of a clergyman figure in a Christian setting (3) a clear perception of family lifethe willful collier and his self-willed children(4) an irony with the tyrannical old collier whose overpowering will has crippled three of his children. Lawrence's idea of 'blood intimacy with' the unknown forces of life stands out in strong relief in the old collier's prayer offered at the baptismal scene, the culmination of the story. In this paper a study on "The Christening" proceeds along the following sections: (1). D. H. Lawrence and depth psychology (2) Birth of a bastard child (3) Structuring of the story (4) The human figures in the story (5) The baptismal scene (6) The theme in the story (7) The viewpoint of the author In the secularized, ironical description of "The Christening", the author of the story is revealed indeed as a passionately religious man, ' the paper concludes.
