Article: Nonfictional narrative in Freud's 'Dora': history, scripted history, conscripted history. (psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud)

I have formed in my own mind the following reconstruction of the scene.

It is no longer a question of simply saying what was done -- the sexual

act -- and how it was done; but of reconstructing, in and around the act, the

thoughts that recapitulated it, the obsessions that accompanied it, the

images,

desires, modulations, and quality of the pleasure that animated it.

Drawn to the battlefield of dream and desire, readers regularly reprowl the text of Freud's Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, attracted both by its history and by its continuing drama. Tracing paths of force and counterforce, forays and ...

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