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John Turner is known within psychoanalytic circles for two fine essays, one on ‘Wordsworth and Winnicott in the area of play’ and the other ‘A brief history of illusion: Milner, Winnicott and Rycroft’. He has also written on David Eder and is a leading figure in Otto Gross studies, as well as being the author of papers bringing together Lawrence and Winnicott. All this previous work is the backdrop to the present book, D.H. Lawrence and Psychoanalysis, a tour de force. It is impossible to do justice, in a brief - or even a long - review, to its journey through the evolving landscape of psychoanalysis in the second decade of the twentieth century, its close reading of Lawrence, and its dense scholarship. I shall not have space to discuss in detail Turner's reading of Lawrence's fiction, but will give an outline of the book.
The author sets himself three tasks: to explore the effect on Lawrence of his acquaintance with the thinking of the bohemian ‘psycho-anarchist’, Otto Gross (Heuer, 2003, p. 130); to place Lawrence's work between 1911 and 1921 in the context of the differences between Freud and Jung which came to a head in that