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Lawrence figures a competition between love and indifference in Kangaroo. Whereas love reminds the reader of brotherhood, humanism, Christianity or the sun, indifference is associated with individualism, non- anthropocentrism, dark gods or the moon. The protagonist, Somers keeps himself indifferent to Australian politics featuring the Digger Movement, which disappoints Kangaroo, Jack, and Willie, those who advocate brotherly love and want to make political progress in their nation. Somers rejects all of the artificially constructed thoughts and emotion that root in a life-denying idealism, and wishes to recover a more primordial self. That Somers wants to eradicate all of humanistic culture-based ‘false desire’ recalls the Buddhist theme of tanha(false desire) and annica(impermanence). However, Lawrence wrongly equates Buddhism with transcendental idealism because he misunderstands that the concept of false desire includes even physiological desire. Although Lawrence misunderstands Buddhism, his ultimate world-view itself goes beyond the Buddhist discourse of negation and evolves into great affirmation, the negation of negation. This non-dualistic fulfillment of self is often depicted through the scenes of sex in the author`s later novels. Likewise, the great happiness is fulfilled through the holistic unification of love and indifference. (Chonnam National University)