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I am sure that none of the effects of this story were consciously employed by Lawrence to describe an oedipal fantasy in childhood.

It is most probable that Freud and the Oedipus complex never entered his head in the writing of this story.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.

He would not have cared why it emerged, he only wanted to capture a memory to play with it again in his imagination and somehow to fix and hold in the story the disturbing emotions that accompanied the fantasy.