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A 4 page critical analysis of the named work. Sigmund Freud’s (1856-1939) “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. Freud’s conclusions included diagnosis of hysteria and sexual repression; he firmly believed that Dora’s refusal to assist her father sprang from her own sexual desire for her own father. The paper discusses Freud’s lack of objectivity and his failure to take a moral view of Dora’s position. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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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 psychotherapy" (Buckley, 1989; p. 1394). What he achieved with the publication of Doras case, however, is
support for the existence of the "forest and the trees" syndrome. Freud was so determined to hang the label of hysteria on Dora that he totally missed the social
norms of right and wrong, values to which Dora so obviously was committed. Nevertheless, Austrian industrialist Philip Bauer presented his daughter to Freud
in October 1900 (Billig, n.d.), four years after Freuds return from a years study in Paris with Jean Martin Charcot and the origins of his theories of hysteria. Daughter
Ida would do fine provide support for his theories. All he had to do was to fit her and her symptoms into the framework he already had defined. Analysis
There is a quality of satisfaction that accompanies analyzing Freud... Though Freuds position as the father of psychoanalysis is an important one
and he deserves respect for providing the framework for modern psychotherapy, several of the theories he believed to be complete in actuality were only partially developed. He was, however,
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