This quote from “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence is significant because it relates to “Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory Oedipus complex”. The Oedipus complex conveys that all boys undergo a stage in which they acquire an unconscious sexual desire to take their fathers place in society. In the story Paul, who is the main character of the story, has a strong inclination to be able to satisfy his mother with her desire for wealth in which her husband never gave her. This also ties in with Freud’s concept of the id part of his psychoanalytic theory. In Freud’s concepts, … Continue reading Quote Design