Anais sails to New York with Dr. Rank and leaves behind Henry, her father, her husband. She believes psychoanalysis has enabled the birth of the "real me." She is escaping the mothering of these men so that she can begin a life of her own. She plans to stay in New York for two months.
This is the end of the Diary of Anais Nin, Volume One, 1931-1934, which covers the period of winter, 1931 to November, 1934. During this time, Anais Nin has been writing: she just finished her D.H. Lawrence study and has worked on House of Incest and Winter of Artifice; she lives in Louvciennes, a rented home she has decorated in a suburb of Paris; she has met Henry and June Miller; she has been reunited with her father; she has begun psychoanalysis with Dr. Rene Allendy and Dr. Otto Rank; she has delivered a stillborn baby girl; and she has spent hours in Paris cafes, walking the sidewalks of Paris, seeing movies, discussing books.
I am eager to begin Volume Two, 1934-1939, to see what develops during her stay in New York and subsequent return to Paris.
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