About this title: Bringing together "Writing on the Wall," composed some ten years after H.D's stay in Vienna, and "Advent," a journal she kept at the time of her analysis there, Tribute to Freud offers a rare glimpse into the consulting room of the father of psychoanalysis. It may also be the most intimate of H.D.'s works.
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Edition Not Stated
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 1956
Description: Very Good in Good Minus jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Gray cloth binding with white title and red decoration, clean and tight, 180 pages, top page tinted gray, light wear; jacket is very rubbed on spine, edge wear. read more
Description: Very Good. By H.D. With Unpublished Letters by Freud to the Author. NY: Pantheon, [1956]. 1st Edition. [x]+180+[2]pp. Small octavo. Gray cloth. A very good copy. Owner's ink inscription to flyleaf. 12.0 ounces = 342 grams. 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches = 20.8 x 13 x 2cm. read more
Description: Very Good in lightly chipped jacket. By H.D. With Unpublished Letters by Freud to the Author. NY: Pantheon, [1956]. 1st Edition. [x]+180+[2]pp. Small octavo. Printed lightly decorative gray cloth with white lettering. A very good copy in lightly chipped dust jacket. 12.0 ounces = 342 grams. 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches = 20.8 x 13 x 2cm. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon, New York, NY
Description: Very Good- in Good+ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. (1956) 180 pp. Original gray cloth covers. Spine a bit darkened; ends bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block and blank endpapers. DJ moderately soiled w/ light edge wear. Spine a bit darkened. Contents nice. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon, (New York)
Date Published: 1956
Description: A near fine copy in near fine dust jacket. DOOLITTLE, Hilda. TRIBUTE TO FREUD by H. D. With unpublished letters by Freud to the author. Cloth, pp. x, 180. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: A New Directions Book
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780811208970ISBN:0811208974
Description: Very Good. 0811208974. 194 pages; Bookplate of the Honors College Reading Room (University of Maine) inside front cover, envelope inside rear cover (checked out once), small masking tape sticker with ink "BF" on spine; slight creasing of spine; otherwise unmarked, clean, tight copy; 8vo 8"-9" tall. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NEW DIRECTIONS
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780811208970ISBN:0811208974
Description: New. "Tribute to Freud" is H.D. 's classic prose memoir, bringing together "Writing on the Wall", composed some ten years after H.D. 's stay in Vienna, and "Advent", a journal she kept at the time of her brief analysis by Freud during 1933-34, in the midst... read more
Edition: 1st edition.
Binding: Gray cloth.
Publisher: Pantheon, New York.
Date Published: 1956
Description: Very Good. No dust jacket. Small water stains on top edge. Cloth out-of-print. 180 pages. Binding has white & red lettering & design. With unpublished letters by Freud to the author. This is an account of a woman's psychoanalysis as reported by her. She is one of the greatest living poets. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon, New York
Date Published: 1956
Description: Very Good+ 180 pp. Very good+ copy in silver cloth; minimal edge and cornerwear of boards. Contents fine; text bright and unmarked. DJ is good+. Smudging, fading and shallow tearing at extremities. read more
Edition: First Edition Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: David R. Godine, Boston
Date Published: 1974
Description: Orange cloth. Foreword by Norman Holmes Pearson. Introduction by Kenneth Fields. Near fine in lightly edgeworn, very good dust jacket. read more
"H.D. can be a little annoying. If one knew her in real life, she might drive a person to distraction. She comes across as someone who's self-absosrbed and addicted to talking through free association, whether on Freud's couch or not. I tried to be open-minded, however, and I was amply rewarded. H.D. herself was generous with Freud during her analysis with him. Despite his homophobic assumptions, she drew him out, encouraging him to reflect more rationally and less arrogantly about issues of sexuality. Through her writings, we get a more complex picture of Freud than the stereotypical polemic one often gets at the present time--more complex but also more compassionate, especially regarding his courage in the face of Nazi atrocities."
"He is midwife to the soul. He is himself the soul. Thought of him bashes across my forehead, like a death-head moth; he is not the sphinx but the sphinx-moth, the death-head moth."
And her own conflicts on the paranormal:
"Are we psychic coral-polyps? Do we build one upon one another? Did I (sub-aqueous) in the Scilly Isles, put out a feeler? Did I die in my polyp manifestation and will I leave a polyp skeleton of coral to blend with this entire myriad-minded chaplet or entire coral island? My psychic experiences were sub-aqueous.""
"I love short chapters. H.D. writes in poetic vignettes that hopscotch through time and space, mythology and memory, without ever coming across as overly-precious or needlessly experimental. Her portrait of Freud is less about eulogizing him, than it is about pinning her memories down like butterflies under glass, inspecting their markings with humble reverence.
"It was not that he conjured up the past and invoked the future. It was a present that was in the past or a past that was in the future.""
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