Psychoanalysis and the unconscious / by D.H. Lawrence.

  • Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.
Date:
1923
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    now is widely at sea. Having ceased to steer by the pole-star of the mind, having ceased to aim at the cramming of the intellect, it veers hither and thither hope¬ lessly and absurdly. Education can never become a serious science until the human psyche is properly understood. And the human psyche cannot begin to be under¬ stood until we enter the dark continent of the unconscious. Having begun to explore the unconscious, we find we must go from centre to centre, chakra to chakra, to use an old esoteric word. We must patiently determine the psychic manifesta¬ tion at each centre, and moreover, as we go, we must discover the psychic results of the interaction, the polarized inter¬ action between the dynamic centres both within and without the individual. Here is a real job for the scientist, a oo