The Inhibited Temperament in Sons and Lovers

The inhibited temperament provides a biological component for what was formerly observed as an introverted personality. It also provides us a way to reexamine literary artifacts that have long been branded by folk psychology and inaccurate models of human psychology. The benefit to a scientific approach to human behavior is that there is correspondence between the two, unlike typical readings of Lawrence's novel that posit a biologically illogical adaptation – i.e. the Oedipal complex. The Inhibited Temperament in Lawrence rescues his novel from such an oubliette of folk psychology and ideological criticism.