Sigmund Freud

In this text the husband and wife team set out to capture the flavour of life at Portmeirion, at a time when a damaging hydro-electric scheme was proposed for the region.It is written in...

MR was confirmed as an Anglican , and enjoyed church ceremonies, but it was Plato 's belief in the individual which provided her with a lifelong ethical code. Later in life she discovered the works...

As a student she discovered and spent much of her time in two worlds which deeply influenced her writing: the theatre and psychoanalysis. She involved herself in student drama (already writing for the theatre) and...

At home her parents used to make her and her sister and brother learn poems by heart, and they paid for the learning, at a penny to sixpence a poem according to length. Later...

CB made her first marriage, at Chelsea register office, to the dashing young painter Lucian Freud (grandson to Sigmund Freud ), who divorced his wife to marry her.

Later, in Sylvia Beach 's bookshop in Paris, she bought a book on psychoanalysis in an attempt to determine why her experiences with Mr Howard affected her so deeply. She would later write that she...

James Beaumont Strachey (1887-1967) was analysed by Freud (with his wife, Alix Sargant-Florence ), translated Freud's work into English for the Hogarth Press , and became a pyschoanalyst himself.

During her teenage years her legal guardians were a New York woman and her psychiatrist husband who had assisted and been analyzed by Sigmund Freud .

Years later RP spoke satirically of her first experience of falling in love. He had yellow curls reaching almost to his shoulders, and lovely blue eyes. He would do. He would have to do. When...

PB 's father died of a stroke on 4 December 1926. She blamed the shock of the General Strike, which had begun on the same day that her father fell ill, the third of May...

In the 1920s, while HD and Bryher were living rootlessly, sometimes in London, sometimes in Europe, HD's list of acquaintances grew to include Gertrude Stein , Alice B. Toklas , Ernest Hemingway , James Joyce

HD built friendships with important figures in psychoanalysis, such as Hanns Sachs , Walter and Melitta Schmideberg , Barbara Low , Stephen Guest , and Mary Chadwick . Later, in analytic sessions with Walter Schmideberg...

VW visited Sigmund Freud at Hampstead.

Not long after this, at the urging of Bryher , she met with therapist Hanns Sachs for psychoanalysis in Berlin. Bryher had also undergone psychoanalysis with Sachs. He diagnosed HD as having a mother...

H. D. underwent her crucial and transforming psychoanalysis with Freud in his offices at Berggasse 19 in Vienna.