ABSTRACT
Hilda Doolittle (HD) was a poet, born in 1886 in Pennsylvania to parents who were members of a Moravian community in which her maternal grandfather had been pastor. She felt that she was a misfit, and out of place in the family; and unable to feel acceptable to either parent. Throughout her life HD published poetry and novels that reflected her struggles with love, sexuality, birth and rebirth, and her preoccupation with communication with the dead, which were all part of the Moravian tradition of her mother’s family. HD published two accounts of her analyses. The first, written in 1944, was reminiscence and a reworking of the analysis with Sigmund Freud ten years before. It was published during 1945–1946. Much of what HD wrote during her life after the analysis has been considered to be both a continuation and revision of it, and her work contains many themes that had appeared in the analysis.
