O amor erótico no conto o espinho na carne, de D. H. Lawrence

Abstract

The concern with the unconscious, the emotion and the subconscious desire of the man is central on the work of the modernist english writer D. H. Lawrence. His writings are spontaneous and deal with taboo subjects in prudish and victorian England like sex, in an open and uninhibited way, shocking many of his contemporaries. The presente study aims at analysing one of Lawrence’s short-stories, The Thorn in the Flesh, referring to the importante role that the sexual relationship carries out as means of communication among Lawrence’s characters that search through this the self-consciousness, the consciousness of others and a personal renovation. This investigation is mainly based on Peter Gay’s (1999, 2000, 2001) historical work about the victorian mind and texts related to the psychoanalysis of Freud (1972, 1997).