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• W78159495 abstract "Douglas Wuchina. of Splendor: Sexual Attraction in D. H. Lawrence. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. viii + 242. $74.95 (cloth). Dennis Wuchina, an independent scholar, appeared in Volume 31, number 3 of D. H. Lawrence Review with an essay on Lawrence's expansion on topic of sexual passion between first and final versions of Women in Love. His recently published full-length study itself expands on this theme. The title, Destinies of Splendor, comes from a line in The Escaped Cock that never mentioned, much less explicated in study that follows; true subject contained in subtitle: sexual attraction in D. H. Lawrence. Wuchina asserts on first page of his introduction that have continued to treat specifically sexual issue in Lawrence with little more than passing mention, and he sets out to fill what he sees as this gap, with reference to many Lawrence works across canon. Along way he offers some bits of useful information and interpretation, but these are far overshadowed by flaws in argument. It clear from start that author has major animuses (and some minor like professoriate); judging by its early appearance in book, Freudianism at top of list. The second chapter, Literature--and sets up for attack subjects of Freud, psychoanalysis, and even psychology itself as useful approaches to Lawrence. The interpretation of Freud so largely Oedipal, and his dismissal of Freud so complete, that Wuchina can resort to such a nonsensical statement as, Freud never explains why infant should love in first place. Much later, Wuchina seems to soften his stance--There may be psychological issues of a Freudian kind, he says, for example, though he thinks that a philosophical or religious take on these matters more appropriate--and even refers in passing to term object relations. But emphasis in his second chapter, on limitations of a Freudian approach to Lawrence, has done more than set up a straw man; it also gives short shrift to other critics by implicitly terming as Freudian all those with psychological interpretations of Lawrence's treatment of sexuality. Indeed, whole purpose of that critically placed second chapter seems to be to laud Lawrence's own two treatises on psychology as better approaches than Freud's, in meanwhile ignoring, when he isn't denigrating any later psychological approaches that might (or might not) derive from Freud. Wuchina's bottom line point seems to be that psychology itself inadequate for understanding Lawrence. But what he has to offer--call it religion or culture or destinies of splendor--does not suffice as a more satisfying approach. The ignoring of approaches not limited to second chapter. In next chapter, on Sons and Lovers, Wuchina remarks that Mrs. Morel not the generalized Freudian mother but is herself product of various cultural forces. Yet this point has been made by others, including Barbara Ann Schapiro in her 1999 study D. H. Lawrence and Paradoxes of Psychic Life. Wuchina says in chapter on Women in Love that Gerald's passion derives from cultural sources as well as psychological ones, as if this were an original idea. When he not ignoring other critics, Wuchina often arrogant in his treatment of them: an example his statement that [Keith] Sagar and his colleagues had all along been teaching Lawrence's views on sex without having understood them properly. Equally off-putting Wuchina's tendency to make generalized statements about critics with no citations to back up his point. …" @default.
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