Tribute to Freud - Couverture souple

Doolittle, Hilda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811220044 ISBN 13 : 9780811220040

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2012

Synopsis

"My bat-like thought-wings would beat painfully in that sudden searchlight," H.D. writes in Tribute to Freud, her moving memoir. Compelled by historical as well as personal crises, H.D. underwent therapy with Freud during 1933-34, as the streets of Vienna were littered with tokens dropped like confetti on the city stating "Hitler gives work," "Hitler gives bread." Having endured World War I, she was now gathering her resources to face the cataclysm she knew was approaching. The first part of the book, "Writing on the Wall," was composed some ten years after H.D.'s stay in Vienna; the second part, "Advent," is a journal she kept during her analysis. Revealed here in the poet's crystal shard-like words and in Freud's own letters (which comprise an appendix) is a remarkably tender and human portrait of the legendary Doctor in the twilight of his life. Time double backs on itself, mingling past, present, and future in a visionary weave of dream, memory, and reflections.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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.

Adam Phillips, whom John Banville called "one of the finest prose stylists in the language, an Emerson of our time," was born in 1954 in Cardiff, Wales. A child psychotherapist, he is the author of On Balance and The Beast in the Nursery.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811220044
• ISBN 13: 9780811220040
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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• Personne responsable: non disponible