Analyzing Freud: Letters of H. D., Bryher and Their Circle
Description
A landmark book in the studies of Freud, H.D., modernism, gender, and sexuality. The poet H.D. (1886-1961) was in psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud in Vienna during the spring of 1933 and again in the fall of 1934. She visited him daily at his study at 19 Berggasse, while outside Nazi thugs and militia bullied their way through the streets. Freud was old, and fragile. H.D. was forty-six and despairing of her writing life, which seemed to have reached a dead end, for all her success. Her sessions with Freud proved to be the point of transition, the funnel into which were poured her memories of the past and associations in the presentand from which she emerged reborn. H.D. came to Freud at the urging of her companion, the novelist Bryher (1884-1983), the daughter of a wealthy British shipping magnate. Freud welcomed H.D. as a creative spirit whose work he respected, but he did ask her not to prepare for their sessions, write about them in her journal, or talk about them with her friends, especially Bryher, who remained home in England. H.D.'s letters from Vienna filled the gap. Breezy, informal, irreverent, vibrant with detail, they revolve around her hours with Freud, making her correspondence unique in the spectrum of reminiscences, journals, memoirs, and biographies swirling around the legacy of the "Professor" and the movement he founded. The volume includes H.D. and Bryher's letters, as well as letters by Freud to H.D. and Bryher, most of them published for the first time. In addition, the book includes H.D. and Bryher's letters to and from Havelock Ellis, Kenneth MacPherson, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, and Anna Freud, among others. Fully annotated with Index and Photographs
Product Details
Price
$39.95
$37.15
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
November 17, 2002
Pages
672
Dimensions
7.48 X 8.54 X 1.89 inches | 2.83 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780811214995
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A feminist icon as well as a major twentieth-century poet, H. D. (the pen name of Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961) wrote several volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and was an exquisite translator of classical Greek drama.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian neurologist and psychologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Although his theories remain controversial until this day, Freud made a lasting impact on Western culture.
Susan Stanford Friedmanis a Hilldale Professor of the Humanities and the Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the Institute for Research in the Humanities. She has published extensively in modernist studies, feminist studies, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, contemporary world literature, and migration/diaspora studies. She is the author of Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time, Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter, and Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, and H.D.'s Fiction.She served as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (1990) and the Modernist Studies Association (2012).