Psychoanalysis and the unconscious / by D.H. Lawrence.

  • D. H. Lawrence
Date:
1923
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Credit: Psychoanalysis and the unconscious / by D.H. Lawrence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This, however, was not the end. The ears of the ethnologist began to tingle, the philosopher felt his gorge rise, and at last the moralist knew he must rush in. By this time psychoanalysis had be¬ come a public danger. The mob was on the alert. The CEdipus complex was a household word, the incest motive a commonplace of tea-table chat. Amateur analyses became the vogue. “ Wait till you’ve been analysed,” said one man to another, with varying intonation. A sinister look came into the eyes of the initiates—the famous, or infamous, Freud look. You could recognize it everywhere, wherever you went. Psychoanalysts know what the end will be. They have crept in among us as healers and physicians; growing bolder, they have asserted their authority as
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