{"title":"\"Singing Like an Echo of an Echo in a Shell\": H.D.'s Search for the Feminine Voice in Tribute to Freud","authors":"Anat Tzur Mahalel","doi":"10.1353/aim.2022.0026","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper suggests a reading of H.D.'s Tribute to Freud as the daughter's quest for the maternal language. This distinctive memoir has commonly been read either through the daughter's Vatersehnsucht, desire for her father, or through the feminist lens of the woman poet confronting the authoritarian Freud. Here I offer the quest of the daughter for the maternal as an obscure dimension of the text, yet one that is crucial in the formation of the feminine voice. It is created through allusions to Goethe's Wilhelm MeistersLehrjahre (1795) and, most distinctly, to the enigmatic figure of Mignon in that novel and to the maternal absence that formed her distinct character and poetic voice. H.D. offers her translation of the maternal as a language of echoes, curly structures, and spiral-like meandering. The maternal dimension of the feminine voice is presented as an impossible yet inevitable work of translation that embodies a continuous struggle of becoming.","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AMERICAN IMAGO","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2022.0026","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This paper suggests a reading of H.D.'s Tribute to Freud as the daughter's quest for the maternal language. This distinctive memoir has commonly been read either through the daughter's Vatersehnsucht, desire for her father, or through the feminist lens of the woman poet confronting the authoritarian Freud. Here I offer the quest of the daughter for the maternal as an obscure dimension of the text, yet one that is crucial in the formation of the feminine voice. It is created through allusions to Goethe's Wilhelm MeistersLehrjahre (1795) and, most distinctly, to the enigmatic figure of Mignon in that novel and to the maternal absence that formed her distinct character and poetic voice. H.D. offers her translation of the maternal as a language of echoes, curly structures, and spiral-like meandering. The maternal dimension of the feminine voice is presented as an impossible yet inevitable work of translation that embodies a continuous struggle of becoming.
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Founded in 1939 by Sigmund Freud and Hanns Sachs, AMERICAN IMAGO is the preeminent scholarly journal of psychoanalysis. Appearing quarterly, AMERICAN IMAGO publishes innovative articles on the history and theory of psychoanalysis as well as on the reciprocal relations between psychoanalysis and the broad range of disciplines that constitute the human sciences. Since 2001, the journal has been edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky, who has made each issue a "special issue" and introduced a topical book review section, with a guest editor for every Fall issue.
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