mother-quick

Updated: May 12, 2025

But this does not alter the fact that within him lives the mother-quick and the father-quick, and that though in his wholeness he is rapt away beyond the old mother-father connections, they are still there within him, consummated but not consumed. Nor does it alter the fact that very few people surpass their parents nowadays, and attain any individuality beyond them.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence - Fantasia of the Unconscious