E-text prepared by Michael Ciesielski, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/c/) 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 well say straight off that I stick to the solar plexus. That statement alone, I hope, will thin their numbers considerably. Finally, to the remnants of a remainder, in order to apologize for the sudden lurch into cosmology, or cosmogony, in this book, I wish to say that the whole thing hangs inevitably together. I am not a scientist. I am an amateur of amateurs. As one of my critics said, you either believe or you don't. I am not a proper archaeologist nor an anthropologist nor an ethnologist. I am no "scholar" of any sort. But I am very grateful to scholars for their sound work. I have found hints, suggestions for what I say here in all kinds of scholarly books, from the Yoga and Plato and St. John the Evangel and the early Greek philosophers like Herakleitos down to Fraser and his "Golden Bough," and even Freud and Frobenius. Even then I only remember hints--and I proceed by intuition. This leaves you quite free to dismiss the whole wordy mass of revolting nonsense, without a qualm.