“Every sentence of psychology,” Rudolf Carnap (1959: 165) wrote in “Psychology in Physical Language” (1932), “may be formulated in physical language. . . . This is a sub-thesis of the general thesis of physicalism to the effect that physical language is a universal language, that is, a language into which every sentence may be translated.” This reductive physicalism was fundamental to Carnap’s...
Colin Clarke, in River of Dissolution: D. H. Lawrence and English Romanticism, has developed the thesis that the nineteenth-century English Romantic poets explored states of dissolution as a way of arriving at strange modes of being.' He states, further, that D. H. Lawrence, deeply influenced by this tradition, elaborates motifs of dissolution both positively and negatively in Women in Love...