Four talks by Michael Black 1: Phaedra and knowledge of the self
D. H. Lawrence felt that a man and woman committed to a permanent relationship need to keep a distance between them, so that ' that which is perfectly ourselves may take place within us.' Racine's Phaedra, Flaubert's Madame Bovary , Tolstoy's Anna Kare nina and Lawrence's Lads Chatterley's Lover are stages in a developing concern with love, marriage and fidelity which always returns to a basic theme: the nature and needs of the self. ‡