The main riddle of Women in Love consists in discrepancy between ' what seems to be intention ' and performance of the text. In the river of dissolution, Ursula and Birkin accomplish the ultimate love star eguilibrium, but Gudrun and Gerald cannot because of some ontological problems. The negative story of Gerald, nevertheless, has some mysterious power to magnetize the reader, and " fleurs du mal "represented by them are in full bloom throughout the work. The intent of this paper is to find out a reason for the discrepancy by trying a psychoanalytical approach based upon Freud's theory of life instincts [ Eros ] and death instincts [ Thanatos ]. In fact, a " psychopathological drama, " which Freud explains in " Ps ychopathic Characters on the Stage " is exactly what Lawrence tried to create in Women in Love. The novel is elaborately organized in expectation of the reader's unconscious reactions.
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