儿子与情人 精神分析

The Analysis of Paul’ Oedipus Complex

--A Psychoanalytical Study on D.H Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers Abstract: D.H. Lawrence is one of the greatest writers in English literature.Sons and Lovers is one of his masterpieces which are known as a novel with a large amount of sexual descriptions in it. Although this book is quite controversial, it is very popular all over the world. In the novel, the hero Paul has Oedipus complex towards his mother which means that he loves his mother like loving his lover. In this paper, the author is trying to use Freud’s psychoanalytical theory to analysis Paul’s Oedipus complex and illustrate several reasons that cause it. Some factors in his family directly cause his Oedipus complex, but capitalism is the fundamental reason for Paul’s tragedy life.

Keywords: Oedipus complex, psychoanalytic theory, formations, reasons

摘要：D.H.劳伦斯是英国文学史上最伟大的作家之一。《儿子与情人》是其代表作。这是一部以性描写著称的小说，因此自诞生之初就备受争议。尽管如此，他还是受到全世界广大读者的欢迎。在此小说中，主人公保罗有严重的恋母情结，他像爱自己的恋人一样，深深爱着他的母亲。在本文中，作者试着用弗洛伊德的精神分析理论对保罗的恋母情结进行分析，并总结了导致保罗恋母情结的原因。尽管家庭因素直接造成了保罗的不正常心理，但资本主义制度才是导致他悲剧生活的根源。

关键词：俄狄浦斯情节，精神分析理论，形成，原因

I Introduction

D.H. Lawrence is one of the greatest writers in English literature whose masterpiece is Sons and Lovers. Due to his life experience and beliefs in the theory of psychoanalysis, there are a large amount of sexual descriptions in this novel. In fact, the hero of the novel has a strong Oedipus complex to his mother, Mrs. Morel. In this paper, the author uses psycholinguistic approach to analysis the development of Paul’s Oedipus complex and works out several reasons that cause the Oedipus complex.

1.1D.H Lawrence

D.H Lawrence was one of the distinctive writers in English literature. He was not only a novelist, but also a poet, dramatist and essayist.

Lawrence was born in coal miner’s family. His father was a coal miner but his mother was from a middle class family and was a well-educated woman. The differences between his father and mother led to his unharmonious family life. He got a lot of social experience from his father and great care from his mother. He received excessive care from his mother, or we can say that his mother spoiled him to some degree, and at the same time, Lawrence also had extraordinary love to his mother. He once said that he loved his mother, just like the feeling to lovers. With his mother’s love, he was unable to love other girls like a normal man. All these about his family life could be reflected in his novel Sons and Lovers.

Lawrence was deeply influenced by Freud’s psychoanalytical theory, so in his work, there are a large amount of descriptions about sex. He regarded the sexual intension as the root of everything. In his masterpieces, for example, Sons and lovers, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, he succeeded in describing sex vividly. Just because of this, his novel receives a lot of critics. In spite of these critics, his works are still welcomed due to his digging into people’s soul.

As a poet, Lawrence was also very successful. His poems can be divided into three periods: In the early period, his poems were mainly his autobiographic; in the middle period, he turned his subject into nature; in the last period, he expressed his opinions to life and rebirth.

Lawrence died in the year of 1930 at a very young age. His death is a great loss to