Lawrence frames the possessive woman as dragging man back into immanence

Evidence

But the egotistical lover who tries to bring the man back to his childhood must be feared; she cuts man down in his flight. “The moon, the planet of women, sways us back.” — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 500

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives concrete substance to immanence vs transcendence: the possessive woman pulls man back from flight (transcendence) into childhood (immanence).
• XREF: Echoes the immanence/transcendence axis Beauvoir develops against Sartre — here applied to sexual mythology. — connects to: Lawrence makes woman valuable only as nourisher of male transcendence; Lawrence’s ideal denies woman even clitoral sexual autonomy in eroticism — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 503; Lawrence’s phallic marriage makes desire for variety inconceivable (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Lawrence makes woman valuable only as nourisher of male transcendence #expands (0.92)
• The failure to possess woman drives man into self-alienation. #contradicts (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 355
• Lawrence’s ideal denies woman even clitoral sexual autonomy in eroticism #contradicts (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 503
• Lawrence’s phallic marriage makes desire for variety inconceivable #qualifies (0.75)