Vision of Budding Artists in Sons and Lovers and A Portrait

This research work introduces the readers with Lawrence's Paul and Joyce's Stephen as artists,in the framework of psychoanalysis, having some similarities and differences in their artisic temperament,inclination, empathy, epiphany,inspiration for their art, rebellion, distortion of conventional morality,practical atheism, ideology,sensitivity to words and language. It uncovers repression, trauma,desperate isolation,intensity of loneliness, split mind,creativity and neurosis, existential neurosis,and creative release after shedding the neurotic refusal to embrace life. Art serves as an alternative source of gratification for their unfulfilled desires.It explores the psychological impulses, motivations of the artist by applying pathographic approach to art.It also shows how does their surrounding affect in their becoming artists.