Both at the beginning and at the end of this essay Goodheart intimates that Freud and D. H. Lawrence are essentially incomparable. Although in a number of his books Lawrence functions as the self-acclaimed critic of psychoanalysis, there is considerable doubt as to whether he actually produces a serious critique of freudian psychoanalysis. Rather, to judge from material presented in this paper, Lawrence used his criticisms of psychoanalysis to expound his own philosophical and psychological theories. Lawrence felt that Freud's concept of the unconscious was unacceptable, seeing it as 'nothing but a slimy serpent of sex, and heaps of excrement, and myriad repulsive little horrors spawned between sex and excrement'. Yet Lawrence demonstrated an equally vehement distaste and