 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 apparent 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 child to be stillborn . 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 . 
