Husbands and Sons by D.H. Lawrence
These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother-urged on and on. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers-first the eldest, then the second.
In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life-for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself.
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Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex.