Volume 22, Number 8 · May 15, 1975
The Battered, Triumphant Sage
By William H. Gass
Tribute to Freud
by HD
Godine, 194 pp., $10.00
Freud and His Followers
by Paul Roazen
Knopf, 599 pp., $12.95
Social Amnesia
by Russell Jacoby
Beacon, 191 pp., $8.95
The only memorable scene in HD's otherwise muzzy, self-absorbed memoirs of the Professor, mainly taken from two series of meetings she had with him in 1933-1934 when Freud was seventy-seven, occurs during an analytic session. Evidently the deeper fish weren't rising and HD was simply dimpling the surface with her toes. Suddenly Freud begins to beat on the headboard of the horsehair sofa she'd been reclining and reminiscing on till his fist roused her. 'The trouble is—I am an old man—you do not think it worth your while to love me.'
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