Exit Dora: Freud's Patient Takes Leave |
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Authors: | Liliane Weissberg Ph.D. |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Arts and Sciences;2. University of Pennsylvania |
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Abstract: | Why did “Dora” leave Sigmund Freud—why did she end her psychoanalytic treatment with him prematurely? This question haunts Freud's Dora study, his first extensive and perhaps most famous narrative of a psychoanalytic treatment. I pursue this question through a close reading of Freud's text. I focus not only on the interaction between Freud and Dora but also on the literary qualities of “Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria” (1905)—qualities that place this work firmly in the tradition of Viennese fin de siècle drama and prose. |
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