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Title: Fantasia of the Unconscious

Author: D. H. Lawrence

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Language: English

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FANTASIA OF THE UNCONSCIOUS

by

D. H. LAWRENCE

New York
Thomas Seltzer
1922
Copyright, 1922, by
Thomas Seltzer, Inc.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

FOREWORD

I. INTRODUCTION

II. THE HOLY FAMILY

III. PLEXUSES, PLANES AND SO ON

IV. TREES AND BABIES AND PAPAS AND MAMAS

V. THE FIVE SENSES

VI. FIRST GLIMMERINGS OF MIND

VII. FIRST STEPS IN EDUCATION

VIII. EDUCATION AND SEX IN MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD

IX. THE BIRTH OF SEX

X. PARENT LOVE

XI. THE VICIOUS CIRCLE

XII. LITANY OF EXHORTATIONS

XIII. COSMOLOGICAL

XIV. SLEEP AND DREAMS

XV. THE LOWER SELF

EPILOGUE

FOREWORD

The present book is a continuation from "Psychoanalysis and the
Unconscious." The generality of readers had better just leave it
alone. The generality of critics likewise. I really don't want to
convince anybody. It is quite in opposition to my whole nature. I
don't intend my books for the generality of readers. I count it a
mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print
is allowed to believe that he can read all that is printed. I count it
a misfortune that serious books are exposed in the public market, like
slaves exposed naked for sale. But there we are, since we live in an
age of mistaken democracy, we must go through with it.

I warn the generality of readers, that this present book will seem to
them only a rather more revolting mass of wordy nonsense than the
last. I would warn the generality of critics to throw it in the waste
paper basket without more ado.

As for the limited few, in whom one must perforce find an answerer, I
may as