ABSTRACT
In November 1921, Mabel had written to D. H. Lawrence inviting him and his wife, Frieda, to Taos after reading his Sons and Lovers, Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, and, most influentially, Sea and Sardinia. Mabel had been powerfully drawn to Lawrence's writings about psychoanalysis, an enthusiasm she shared in her correspondence with both Jelliffe and Brill. In the early fall of 1922, D. H. and Frieda Lawrence arrived in Taos as guests of Mabel, Sterne and Tony Luhan. From the beginning, the relationship between Lawrence and Mabel was intense and stormy, full of conflict and drama, yet at the same time contained a validation of Mabel's initial goal for his visit. Under the strain of her intense striving for a creative marriage of minds with Lawrence, combined with Frieda's jealousy, Lawrence's own role in the rivalry, and his violently ambivalent feelings about Mabel, Lawrence and Frieda left Taos after only two months.
