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Article: Nonfictional narrative in Freud's 'Dora': history, scripted history, conscripted history. (psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud)
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- March 22, 1995
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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 ...