Tribute to Freud (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Hilda Doolittle
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1933-1934
- Setting: Vienna and London
- Principal Characters: Sigmund Freud, H. D.
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, Psychology
- Subjects: Memory, Parents and children, Doctors, Poetry or poets, Dreams, 1930’s, Fathers, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Biography, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts
- Locales: Vienna, Austria
Form and Content
In March of 1933, H.D. went to Vienna for the special purpose of beginning a series of psychoanalytic sessions with Sigmund Freud because, as she later noted, “there was something that was beating in my brain,” and she believed that Freud would help her “take stock of her modest possessions” and guide her in discovering “how best to steer her course” through her troubles.
H.D.’s sessions lasted until the middle of June. She returned for a five-week series in the autumn of 1934, and she saw Freud briefly four years later, after he...
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