D. H. Lawrence's Views on the Development of the Infant's Interpersonal world

In 1921 Lawrence published the essay Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious (1921/1971), followed a few months later by Fantasia of the Unconscious (1922/1971), representing his more developed views on the subject. In the Foreword to the latter he writes:

I am no “scholar” of any sort. But I am very grateful to scholars for their sound work. I have found hints, suggestions for what I say here in all kinds of scholarly books, from the Yoga and Plato and St. John the Evangel and the early Greek philosophers like Herakleitos down to Frazer and his “Golden Bough”, and even Freud and Frobenius. Even then I only remember hints—and I proceed by intuition. This leaves you quite free to dismiss the whole wordy mass of revolting nonsense, without a qualm. (Lawrence, 1922/1971, pp. 11-12)

Should we do that and conceive the whole text only as an interesting example of idiosyncratic mental exercise? Or are we justified in testing some of the ideas, premised by the author, against views based on data originating from different methods of scientific research? The answer depends on the value one attaches to products of intuition. Nobody will rely on intuition in the approach of neuroanatomical structures, neuro-physiological processes, or cosmological elements. Lawrence's theories on these issues may be regarded as metaphorical presentations but any relation with scientific theories remains illusory. The problem is quite different with regard to psychological functioning. A great deal of theories concerning psychological functioning found their origin in intuitively assumed connections, afterward confirmed or discarded by more or less empirical and experimental research methods. Relying on this principle, we think that a critical analysis of the Lawrentian theories should enable us to specify some statements that, in the last decades, have turned out to be important subjects of psychoanalytic controversies and developmental psychology research.