Reviewing the autobiographical memoir of H.D.'s (Hilda Doolittle) analysis with Freud during the 1930's, Arens argues that this record of her analysis is a refashioning of Freudian discourse and modernistic poetics through which H.D. moves her own legend and Freudianism into the post-Second World War world. Her second level of analysis is a self-analysis in which she interrogates her relationship with Freud and her analytic experience of reclaiming her childhood. Her self-analysis moves in the direction of re-creating her memory of spaces as domains of control of various powers—male/female, public/private—thus recognizing herself as analyst, not just student or analysand. She recognizes an unconscious resistance to Freud and to those around him, and that she did not give him either the satisfaction of curing her or of having her behave like all his other patients and colleagues. She describes Freud's impotence in the hands of his