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In 1933, H. D.

traveled to Vienna to undergo analysis with Sigmund Freud.

She had an interest in Freud's theories as far back as 1909, when she read some of his works in the original German.

H. D.

was referred by Bryher's psychoanalyst due to her increasing paranoia about the rise of Adolf Hitler which indicated another world war, an idea that H. D.

found intolerable.

The Great War ( World War I ) had left her feeling shattered.

She had lost her brother in action, while her husband suffered effects of combat experiences, and she believed that the onslaught of the war indirectly caused the death of her child with Aldington: she believed it was her shock at hearing the news about the RMS Lusitania that directly caused her miscarriage.

Writing on the Wall, her memoir about this psychoanalysis, was written concurrently with Trilogy and published in 1944 ; in 1956 it was republished with Advent, a journal of the analysis, under the title Tribute to Freud.