“Freud took pleasure in showing H.D. his objects, but she wasn’t sure if this was a social gesture or part of his analytic plan. “Did he want to find out how I would react to certain ideas embodied in these little statues, or how deeply I felt the dynamic idea still implicit in spite of the fact that ages or aeons of time had flown over many of them?” she reflected. “Or did he mean simply to imply that he wanted to share his treasures with me, those tangible shapes before us that yet suggested the intangible and vastly more fascinating treasures of his own mind?” Freud, the Antique Collector https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/freud-the-antique-collector