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An 8 page paper assessing Freud's famous first case that he labeled a "failure," though by today's standards it would not have been a failure at all and likely it would have been Dora's father in psychoanalysis rather than Dora. “Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria” (1963) is Freud’s account of the case of Ida Bauer, whose father brought to Freud seeking “cure” for her willful refusal to assist her father in securing the affections of his would-be mistress, specifically by yielding to the woman's husband's pursuit of young Dora. Dora was only 14 when the man – a sexual predator by today's standards – began behaving grossly inappropriately. The paper applauds Dora's strength of will and refusal to back away from her convictions. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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File: CC6_KSpsychFreudDora2.rtf
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Why in the world would any young woman turn down an older - and married - man presenting himself to her in ways that without question were not
acceptable in European society at the turn of the last century. The father of psychoanalysis concluded that "Dora," the pseudonym he gave to patient Ida Bauer, in reality not
only was experiencing repressed sexual desire for the married man several decades her senior. For good measure, Freud was certain that Dora also held similar desires for the mans
wife. With so many repressed desires, it was no wonder that the poor just-turned-18-year-old girl suffered from depression, "hysteria," dyspnoea, fainting spells and aphonia, along with keeping herself isolated
and flirting with thoughts of suicide from time to time. Dyspnoea is difficult breathing or hysterical choking; aphonia is loss of voice.
Of all the things Dora had lost - among them a mother with discernment and a father with a backbone - to her credit her determination and confidence in her
own ability to exercise critical thinking were not among them. The Case Sigmund Freuds (1856-1939) Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
(1963) is Freuds account of the case of Ida Bauer, whose father brought to Freud seeking "cure" for her willful refusal to assist her father in securing the affections of
his would-be mistress. Freuds conclusions included diagnosis of hysteria and sexual repression; he firmly believed that Doras refusal to assist her father sprang from her own sexual desire for
her own father. "Freud published her case to explain the causes of hysteria and show how his dream theory could be used in
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