Women in Love, as many of Lawrence's works, is enriched by the invisible power of unconscious drives which grip the reader firmly from inside. His conflicts buried in this novel are of universal nature to affect the reader in the modern world. The intent of this paper is to delve into the sub-text based upon the father complex, which considerably contributes to create the irrevocable tragic tone and the overwhelming cathartic effect at the end of the novel. A careful study of repetition, exaggeration, ambiguity and evasion reveals Gerald to be a symbolic father, and the view is further supported by the analysis with the theory of dream interpretation.

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This paper is an attempt at a psychoanlytical interpretation of the story, The Poor Clare, along with some other gothic stories by her. It tries to explain the heroine, Lucy's double in terms of the mental disease called Psychological Trauma Stress Disease, the cause of which is rooted in a traumatic experience through which the multiple-personality patient has gone in her childhood. The phenomenon called a curse can be understood as a repressed desire as her voluptuous double----a paraxial image of its obsessive chastitiy. The plot in the story develops in an inhibitious 18th century society whose traditional and aristocratic values are based on fears that women who are not treated as child will fall into loathsome lechery. "The fantastic" in the Gothic pieces by Gaskell can be, in our view, represented as an alternative world as discussed in some feminist criticism.

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This article deals with the trend in modern productions of Othello to characterize Iago either dominated by Eros (including homosexuality) or by the will to power (and its reversal, the inferiority complex). In this contrast between Eros and powerdrive, we are able to discern an echo of the discrepancy between the Freudian theory of a prevalent sexual-drive and Alfred Adler's power principle, that caused the breach of the latter from the Freudian school. The author argues that this collision which occurred in 1911 was more than a schism within the circle of depth-psychology. Sexual impulse, power-drive and the subconscious form a triangular set of very important fundamentals that have determined the main currents of modern thought. We can locate Freudianism on the line between Eros and the subconscious, and place feminism between Eros and power, and "ideology"between power and the subconscious, respectively. This article also applies Jungian psychology to this topic. Instead of construing Iago to be the representation of Othello's "shadow -side", a way of interpretation much used by Jungian critics, Othello is better understood as the representation of Iago's shadow image, and not vice versa. Iago represents the malignant aspect of "Yin'' (the opposite of "Yang"), a plurality Jung adopted from classical Asian thought.

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