Fantasia of the Unconscious

Fantasia of the Unconscious presents D. H. Lawrence’s speculative theories about human psychology, sexuality, instinct, and social relationships.

Lawrence begins by challenging Freudian psychoanalysis but develops his own account of unconscious forces and bodily knowledge.

The work reflects his recurring attempt to explain emotional conflict through symbolic, sexual, and psychological patterns.

Its arguments are often controversial and philosophically uneven, but they illuminate the ideas informing his fiction.

Ferrall mentions it as evidence that Lawrence did work through psychological questions rather than merely displaying them in novelistic form.