![]() ![]() ![]() Lawrence’s attempt is to show that much of the problem of our failing to experience what Paul Morel calls the “real, real flame of feeling” with anyone, arises out of a nihilistic impulse towards either utilitarian logic or pure, abstract “knowing.” It can stem from an excessive idealization of everything while perversely rejecting that idealization. And by sensual we mean the more impulsive reckless nature” (117). ![]() In Fantasia of the Unconscious, to convey his concept of the aesthetic as a “lapsing out” of the conscious self, he describes some of the ways in which selfhood and self-awareness may be damaged by utilitarian “understanding” in childhood: “The warm, swift, sensual self is steadily and persistently denied, damped, weakened throughout all the period of childhood. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious)ġAll his life, Lawrence wrote passionately against what he called the cerebralization of feeling. “Understanding is a fallacy and a vice in most people.Īnd wisdom is not a theory, it is a state of soul.” ![]()
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