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Thoughts on Reading D. H. Lawrence
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Article
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One of my favorite scenes in literature occurs in D. H. Lawrence's novel The Rainbow (1915). Tom Brangwen's Polish wife Lydia is upstairs in their home giving birth. Tom is downstairs with Anna, Lydia's four-year-old child by her first marriage. Anna is panic-stricken, screaming in terror for her mother, and Tom is responding to her with irritation and mounting anger. Like the child, he too is feeling shut out and abandoned by Lydia. Tom is made particularly furious by the "blind" and "mechanical" nature of Anna's crying.
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B Schapiro - Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 1999 - PEP Web
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Shapiro, B. (1999). Transitional states and psychic change: Thoughts on reading D. H. Lawrence . Contemporary Psychoanalysis 35(1), 44-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.1999.10746381