These unacknowledged sources could include the writings of Lawrence.ĢIt is furthermore obvious that discontents with civilization were quite common among artists and writers after the WW1 trauma and that this led many of them to question the validity of art as a remedy for this disease, unless new forms of art were to be found to express the inhuman violence and destruction of this new form of war, without which only silence or absence of representation could prevail.ģIn this context, we will try to find some traces of Lawrencian thoughts and ideas in Freud’s essay on civilization. However, as Freud often quotes from writers, Twain, Goethe, Shakespeare, Rousseau and Rolland, he may also have been inspired by other literary sources which he did not explicitly quote from.
1Trying to find Freudian echoes in Lawrence may appear somewhat contrived insofar as Freud published his book after D.H. Lawrence’s death.
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