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Lawrence, Freud and masturbation.

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From: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Date: 19950301
Author:Cowan, James C.

Novelist D.H. Lawrence and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud similarly condemned masturbation as an act of pathological sexuality. However, Lawrence's early writings reflect his preoccupation with sexual fantasies that can be interpreted as masturbatory. In this light, his use of homoerotic and sadomasochistic imagery becomes a good example for what Freud has characterized as the polymorphic quality of juvenile sexuality in which autoeroticism is expressed on objects that are meant to represent actual objects of desire.

D H. Lawrence thought of himself as a sexual liberator, and for several ...

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