Teller's First and Last Visits to Sigmund Freud

Abstract

During the 1930's, as a young Yiddish poet in New York, YehudaLeyb Teller produced some of the memorab1e pre-war poetry of his generation.Like the introspectivist writers who inspired him, Teller was increasingly aware of politica1 deve10pments in Europe. Thepoetic cyc1e entit1ed "Psychoana1ysis," one of Teller's most outstandingaccomp1ishments, fuses real and imaginary dimensions. Twoof the six "Psychoana1ysis" poems confront Sigmund Freud and thesituation of the European Jews.