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Article: Freud's Unadorned and Unadorable: A Case History Terminable and Interminable
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- Psychoanalytic Inquiry
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Analytic Press 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Various aspects of The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) reveal Freud as being overwhelmed and shed indispensable light on his mind-set when he was treating the paradigmatic case of Dora. The transferential and countertransferential dynamics of the treatment influenced Freud's write-up of the case both in detail and in its grand design. Nine inconsistencies in the case show that, in effect, Freud met his conquistadora.
NEARLY A CENTURY AGO TO THE DAY,1 DORA BECAME FREUD'S patient. Had the couple Freud and Dora been able to predict their joint fame in analytic history, they might have been tempted to say, "For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, neither before nor after death will ...