Freud's Oracle: A Play Based on the Life of H.D. suffered great personal losses and a nervous breakdown due to the Great War and became Freud's patient in 1933 because of an increasing paranoia about the rise of Hitler and the fear and certainty th
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| Title | : | Freud's Oracle: A Play Based on the Life of H.D. |
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (678 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01GBX834O |
| Format Type | : | - |
| Number of Pages | : | 0 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-28 |
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Editorial :
Freud's Oracle, a new play by award-winning author/actor Catherine Ann Jones, is a one-person play about the American poet H.D. and her relationship with Sigmund Freud. H.D. suffered great personal losses and a nervous breakdown due to the Great War and became Freud's patient in 1933 because of an increasing paranoia about the rise of Hitler and the fear and certainty that another world war was coming. The themes are the travesty of war and the triumph of the individual spirit. For more info on the author: wayofstory
Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, a former AIC curator and currently Senior Curator of Collections at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, arranged the exhibition and wrote this accompanying essay. Another word would be fun. I am debating also getting that one. I can attest to the accuracy of both books, having served as a lawyer myself in both cases. Artemisia Gentileschi's painting "Judith Slaying Holofernes" (1620) is on loan from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence to The Art Institute of Chicago and on exhibit there from October 2013 to January 2014. Here you get about 100 or so b&w illustrations.
What Burton does provide is a nifty combination of history and aesthetics. Sifting though more than 40,000 letters is no simple feat. This book is a good read for historians, writers, journalists, educators and anyone who appreciates unsung heroes.. “Catherine Ann Jones writes with a “gem like lucidity” mixing pleasurable prose with “ah ha” moments of enlight
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