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Re-upholstering Sigmund Freud’s Couch and Remembering One Poet Who Made a Dent in it

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

The Freud Museum in London made an appeal to have the couch of Sigmund Freud re-upholstered for his 157th birthday. One of Freud’s many patients was American Poet Hilda Doolittle, also known as H.D.

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