In the first decades of the 20th century, after the end of the Great War, the leading English writer, at the age of thirty-five, while working feverishly on novels, short stories, and poems, launches two libelous attacks on psychoanalytic theories, just as they gain wider popularity, especially in the United States.

However, psychoanalysis is just the starting point. Lawrence, after confronting the psychoanalysts, confronts society, and after confronting society, confronts the individual.

According to Lawrence, love (which so occupied him in his literary works) is the second of the two central issues of human existence, after "purpose". Seeing it insidiously distorted by a "pseudo-science" (psychoanalysis), he becomes enraged.

He perceives a slow but destructive alteration of the "pure, primal soul" by the now perverted brain of the individual due to the social tendencies that psychoanalysis systematizes and validates.

He believes that the two greatest problems of the people of his time are, on the one hand, the mistaken perception of gender and love, and on the other hand, the unhealthy attachment to this false love instead of an impulsive creative purpose. The result: an internal - and by extension, social - imbalance.

"Fantasia of the Unconscious" is undoubtedly one of the most uneven essays ever written. Lawrence treats the reader - to whom he "speaks" - sometimes as a friend or "ally" and sometimes as an enemy; sometimes he attacks fiercely, and sometimes he jokes cheerfully; sometimes he develops his positions in a structured manner, according to the traditional English essayistic rule, and sometimes he records his associations incoherently, almost as if he were rambling. Very rarely does an author - especially an English one - attempt to present himself so faithfully.

These two psychoanalytic - but essentially literary - essays by Lawrence, which are translated into Greek for the first time, are an essential complement to his literary works for those who want to delve into his thinking or simply get to know an independent individual.