摘要

《儿子与情人》是劳伦斯著名的作品之一，作为线索，书中人物的心理形成和心理发展始终贯穿着全文，提到《儿子与情人》，人们习惯于将其与弗洛伊德的精神分析联系在一起，用精神分析来解读这部小说变得越来越流行。本文将男主人公保罗的内心发展过程划分成三大部分，即保罗的童年时期、青少年时期和成年时期，通过运用相关的心理学知识对这三个阶段进行分析，保罗的人格发展、心理状态及其变化原因将会变得清晰，进而读者能更好的理解作品。

关键词：《儿子与情人》；劳伦斯；心理过程

Abstract

Sons and Lovers is one of the most famous works of Lawrence. As a clue, the main figure’s psychological formation and psychological development are throughout the whole story. When people mention Sons and Lovers，they often relate it with Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis, and using psychoanalysis to analyze the book becomes more and more popular. In this paper, the hero Paul’s psychological progress will be divided into three parts: period of childhood, period of adolescence, and period of adulthood. By analyzing the three stages with some relevant psychological knowledge, Paul’s personality development, psychological process and the reasons which lead to the mental changes can be clearly seen, so that readers can understand the book better.  

Key words: Sons and Lovers; Lawrence; Psychological progress

1.    Introduction
David Herbert Lawrence is one of the most famous and controversial novelists in English literature. In most of his works, he unremittingly shows readers a picture of endless psychological problems. Sons and Lovers is such a novel which is best known by people all over the world. Also, it is considered as an autobiography. This book was written in 1992 and published in1913. Very similar to the experience of the hero Paul, Lawrence also grew up in a family with atmosphere strange. He was born in a midland mining village. Like Walter Morel, a character in Sons and Lovers, Lawrence’s father was a miner. However, his mother did not have a good relationship with her husband because of the different educational backgrounds, habits and life styles. Brought up in such a family, Lawrence was on his mother’s side. He was hostile to his father even when he was very young. After the family’s elder son William Ernest died, the mother paid much more attention and love to Lawrence. It made him hard to get rid of the influence of his mother in the years to come. Gradually, he could not deal with the relationship well with his girlfriends. Therefore Sons and Lovers can be viewed as a product of Lawrence’s early life. In this book, Lawrence used his unique technique and the subtle psychological description to tell readers an exclamatory and entangled story. The employment of realism and modernism is a distinctive feature of his writing style.