A psychoanalytical reading of D.H.Lawrence's the Rainbow and The Man Who Loved the Islands

When the characters in D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and The Man Who Loved Islands are analysed from a psychoanalytic point of view, it is seen that the psychoanalytic point of view reveals the relationship between the works and the author, as is the case with the characters in many works in the world of literature. From this point of view, Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory of Criticism in D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow forms the basis of the study, while in the second work, The Man Who Loved Islands, the reflections of Sigmund Freud's theory of life (Eros) and death (Thanatos) impulses on the characters of the work are examined.Although there are many episodes from Lawrence's life, the effects of excessive love or lack of love that children encounter in infancy on the relationship between parents and children are discussed. For this reason, the emergences of problems in the Oedipal complex and coping with these conflicts are discussed. Some identity confusions and their consequences as a result of the conflict are analysed. D.H. Lawrence's The Man Who Loved the Islands is discussed. In this work, the conflicts between Freud's life and death impulses and the problems that arise as a result of these conflicts are discussed. Sometimes the situations that people resort to in order to be alone can lead to unexpected results. For this reason, the decisions taken mobilize internal impulses. The work with the impulses of Eros and Thanatos addresses this struggle between life and death.