D. H. Lawrence & World as Illusion

"He found himself in a void. There was no Time only Space. Who could say his mother had lived & did not live? She had been in one place, & was in another, that was all. And his soul could not leave her, wherever she was. So much, & himself, at the core a nothingness."

"Mother", he whispered "mother!"

The above are the searing last lines of "Sons & Lovers". Even though it is considered a classic of Oedipal Fixation (& Lawrence himself hinted at it), a close examination of the above lines shows that his soul could not leave her's, putting paid to the Oedipal theory, which can be only corporeal.

A more logical argument would be the illusory nature of the world (a void as Lawrence puts it) as propounded by Shankara "Brahma Satyam, Jagat Mithya". Or to be more literal, Lawrence momentarily had an Advaitic experience "Mathru Satyam, Jagat Mithya!" (or the world was a void without his mother). As unfortunately the Western mind is not trained to grasp higher spiritual ideas, he might have ascribed his feelings to purely Freudian analysis.