Magic Mirror, Compassionate Friendship, and Thorn Thicket: A Tribute to Erich Heydt - Couverture souple

H.D.; Christodoulides, Nephie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1550583883 ISBN 13 : 9781550583885

Editeur : ELS Editions, 2015

Synopsis

Magic Mirror is H.D.'s unpublished roman à clef of her eight-year "strange relationship" with Dr. Erich Heydt, a psychiatrist in Zürich with whom she formed a bond which often oscillated between professional consultation and a sort of analyst-analysand intimacy accompanied by much inner conflict and resistance. Relatively short, and written in three drafts between 1955 and 1956, Magic Mirror is autobiography in disguise: "Everything is true there… I had a hard time finding names for my people. They are real people; everything is real except the build-up of Eric's enigmatic German background." Magic Mirror sheds abundant light on her relationship with Heydt, who played a role much like Freud did in H.D.'s life twenty years earlier. The work also offers insights into her relationship with Ezra Pound; her unresolved bond with her half-brother, Eric Doolittle; Pieter Rodeck; as well as the sinking of the Lusitania and the still-birth of her first child on May 21, 1915. Further, the memoir is significant as a textual alembic which casts into sharp relief issues manifested in her other postwar works, for example, the occult, spiritualism, and how they both relate to psychoanalysis and her vocation as a writer. Magic Mirror contains material that is further expanded in her memoirs Compassionate Friendship (1955) and Thorn Thicket (1960).

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nephie J. Christodoulides was Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Cyprus. She was the author of Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking: Motherhood in Sylvia Plath's Work (Rodopi 2005) as well as articles on Sylvia Plath, Hilda Doolittle, Ted Hughes and Christina Rossetti. She also co-edited the Cambridge Companion to H.D.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ELS Editions
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1550583883
• ISBN 13: 9781550583885
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
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