“She is Perfect … Only she has Lost her Spear”: the Goddess Athene, Freud, and H. D.

I am going to present some scenes from a drama in which the Goddess Athene and the rest of Freud’s antiquities play symbolic roles. The drama depicts a search, transferences, and transformations. In its center is a psychologically vulnerable woman, the American expatriate writer/poet Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961).