Dora An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria Author:Sigmund Freud An appealing and intelligent eighteen-year-old girl to whom Freud gives the pseudonym "Dora" is the subject of a case history that has all the intrigue and unexpected twists of a first-rate detective novel. Freud pursues the secrets of Dora's psyche by using as clues her nervous mannerisms, her own reports on the peculiarities of her family, and... more » the content of her dreams.
The personalities involved in Dora's disturbed emotional life were, in their own ways, as complex as she: an obsessive mother, an adulterous husband, her father's mistress, Frau K., and Frau K.'s husband, who had made amorous advances to Dora. But through Freud's genius in unraveling Dora's motives and the tangled relationships that led to her confused inclinations toward men and women, the roots of Dora's problem are completely revealed to the reader. Freud's analytic talent and literary skill combine to offer exciting insights into the art of psychoanalysis.« less