Sigmund Freud

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...

Theresa soon becomes aware of the functions of her writing: The play—the plot—was turning out very differently from what she had expected; and as well as being a transposing of life at Plasencia [in Spain]...

This book masterfully appropriates the Freud ian techniques of self-analysis through dream interpretation, childhood reminiscence, recollection, and free association which gave H. D. the elements of her re-visionary poetics. It goes deeper or earlier...

KR 's poetry, which focusses on archetypal forms of being, is influenced by Swedenborg and the Neo-Platonists. She was also fascinated by the avant-garde movements of her era: Bloomsbury Humanism, Freud ianism, Wittgenstein 's and...

She introduces herself as a Socialist who has twice stood as a Labour candidate in parliamentary elections, and acknowledges a general debt to Freud as well as a particular debt to the work of Dr....

This book is made up of discrete pieces published in various books and journals between 1973 and 1976. They include critique of intellectual fathers like Freud and Lacan , analysis of the relationship between language...

Alison Lee 's book on AC calls her an intellectual writer, whose novels refer to many literary, critical, and musical works, including the social and anthropological theories of Roland Barthes , Claude Levi-Strauss , and...

LI 's account of mother-daughter relations here stands in opposition to Freud 's account of the son's Oedipal desire to kill the father. Her female parent-child duo is lyrically presented but just as contested. She...

Linden Peach comments that this novel rewrites rewriting of the biblical story of Genesis. It can also be read as an undoing of gender identities as they are supposed to be formulated according to...

The book is divided into three parts: The Guilty One, written by Clément, Sorties, written by Cixous, and Exchange, a collaboration between both authors. Sandra Gilbert describes Sorties as an apocalyptic vision...

HC argues against Freud 's theory that the feminine situation is a result of anatomical defect: that women must be described as men who are missing parts. Sexual difference, she writes, is not determined by...

In a section called The Dawn of Phallocentrism, HC presents block quotes from Freud and Joyce , formatted to look much like an interview with a third character she calls Jewoman. Freud and Joyce...

Jewoman again discusses myth, particularly that of Orestes, Agamemnon's son, who kills his mother Clytemnestra. Upon Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War (as related in drama by Æschylus and others), Clytemnestra murdered him because, before...

This essay is a manifesto calling women to write. Echoing parts of La Jeune née and highly polemical, it is an answer to Freud 's use of the legend of Perseus and the Medusa (a...

The book purports to be a journal kept by a steak as it waits to be sold and waits, too, for gradually encroaching madness to engulf it. As the steak considers attitudes to madness, psychoanalysis...