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This paper analyzes the issue of sexually repressed desire in "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles and Sigmund Freud's "Dora". The paper shows how the highly comparable characters Dora and Oedipus represent the tragic mental illness of sexual enmeshment between daughter/son and father/mother relationships that are often the result of repressed sexual desire. The paper explains that the "Oedipus Complex" is the direct result of Freud's evaluation of Oedipus' own sexual trauma, which he then transposes onto Dora's character.

Tags:dora, sex, abuse

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This thesis seeks to examine the treatment, by Sigmund Freud, of a female patient, identified as Dora, aged 18, in the beginning of the 20th. century. The author contends that Freud, whilst undoubtedly a pioneer in the field of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, allowed his prejudices and chauvinism to influence his thinking and diagnosis in the case of Dora. The writer investigates and evaluates this idea by examining existing scholarly research and by his own investigation into Freud's treatment of his patient.

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"This paper will present the case - through a careful review of existing scholarship and this writer's own investigation - that Freud was a chauvinist who didn't listen to Dora's cry for understanding, but rather became aggressive in his desire to verify his own interpretations of her issues. In short, there is evidence that Dora was a victim of trauma, but in his haste to prove his point about hysteria, Freud used his narrative to spin the truth his own selfish way. And moreover, he made rash assumptions about Dora's family - in particular her mother - without having full knowledge and background of those dynamics, and he didn't record the substance of his therapy with Dora until after the sessions had been completed. It is altogether possible that Freud's assumptions - and his own ego-driven male bias - led him to wrongful conclusions, and the fact that he relied on his memory to complete the delicate yet pivotal recording of the interactions with Dora leads observers today to wonder as regards the accuracy therein."

Tags:Freud, Dora, psychology, therapy

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This paper attempts to deconstruct and expose the inherent patriarchal ideologies in Freud's psychoanalysis of his famous patient, "Dora". The basis of Freud's psychoanalytic theories revolved around sexuality, and his account of her "madness" condemns her sexuality and dismisses all feminine sexuality. This is a feminist critique of Freud's theories, in general, and specifically, in regards to his comments on the case of "Dora", which attempt to expose the unconscious assumptions that Freud saw in everyone else but himself. The contention of this paper is thus that the society and culture and gender of an individual directly influences his or her perception and interpretation of another individual, and thus Freud, as a privileged, white man in a patriarchal society, could never hope to help or analyze "Dora" accurately.

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"For Dr Sigmund Freud the case analysis of "Dora" signified the possibility of proclaiming a marriage between dream analysis and psychoanalysis to the psychoanalytic community (Freud, 1901/1905: 44ff.). Yet it was never the woman in analysis who was of importance for either Freud or the psychoanalytic community. Ida Bauer was never important and nor was her Symbolic representation, Dora. Indeed all the women within Dora's case are characterized as "nothing," no woman is important (Gallop, 1985: 216). It might be argued that we can never truly know the content of Ida's "nothingness" because Dora was Freud's invention, his interpretation, biases and desires postured onto her feminine form (Geargear, 1985: 177). However we need not know Ida's real life story as Freud's narration of her is more indicative of Ida's status as a woman within a patriarchal society than any autobiographical account could ever have been. Thus Dora becomes a fluid character who need not claim a "real" identity or to be set in an historical moment for she exceeds Ida and is instead the transcendent woman; her hysteria is every woman's hysteria."

Tags:bauer, ida, irigaray, lacanian, oedipal

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"Sigmund Freud, in "Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" , provides an example of the patriarchal abuse of power in the psychoanalytic setting. This abuse would be nothing new in that profession, were it not for the fact that Freud has hidden from himself the truth of what is occurring in his attempt to create out of the hysterical Dora a new human being more to his liking and approval. What is actually happening is that Freud himself has fallen in love with Dora, and every interpretation he makes of her case reflects his obsession with her, and his rage at the fact that she has shown the independence, audacity and wisdom to leave him before he has been able to re-create her in his own image.

This assertion may seem outlandish at first, but if we examine the case of Dora and Freud's interpretation (and ... "

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The paper examines the cultural context in which the case study of Dora appeared. It discusses Freud's theory of personality, the neurosis or hysteria of Dora, and presents a feminist reading of Freud's "Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria".

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"This research examines Freud's case study of a patient he calls "Dora." The research will set forth the cultural context in which the case study appeared and then discuss ways in which a feminist reading of Freud's text has the effect of interrogating, ..."

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After psychiatrists Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung met, they immediately formed a close friendship. Jung learned as much as he could from Freud, and Freud was very eager to pass on his knowledge and beliefs. The paper shows however, that after six years, Jung felt that Freud needed to broaden his theories. Freud was unable to accept this criticism because he expected unquestioning loyalty from his followers. The two men parted and expanded on their own theories independently. The paper explains that Freud maintained his theory that all dreams are the fulfillment of repressed wishes and contain mostly sexual symbols. Jung, however, believed that dreams do not have to be wish fulfillment and that the role of sex is not as strong as Freud believed it was. Based on their different theories, this paper explores how Jung might have analyzed Dora, one of Freud's patients. Sigmund Freud's interpretation of dreams differs from Carl Jung's interpretation due to his different opinion of the purpose of dreams and the role of sexuality, as evidenced in their contrary analysis of Dora in this paper.

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"Freud decided to begin his analysis of Dora's first dream using free association. Through this method, Freud discovered that Dora's parents had been fighting because Dora's mother was locking the dining room door at night. Dora's father was upset because if something were to happen in the night, then her brother would be locked inside the house since his bedroom only leads into the dining room. When Dora's father mentioned his fear of something happening at night, Dora thought about a fire. Freud concluded that it was this fear of fire that caused Dora's recurring dream to resurface (Freud 82)."

Tags:abuse, hysteria, psychology, repression

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This paper assesses the social history approach and aspects of economic history and middle range theories coupled with smaller concepts or heuristic devices that have been utilised in Dora L. Costa's research "Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison". The paper looks at how this piece of research centres on a middle-range theory concerning race and not a metanarrative like Marxism, and subsequently theories concerning the family, kinship, status and community are also subsidiary factors in this research.

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" Data, can be easily skewed to fit the researcher's hypothesis, and the method used for sample selection; from what class, race, religion etc... that the sample is selected can be 'coloured' by the researcher's opinions of a class, race or religion and/or by what class, race or religion that the researcher belongs to. Some researchers may argue in an a posteriori way and omit or dismiss as "accidental, historical data" which does not support their theory. Many scientists are correct to criticise the "the socially manipulative ideological agendas of much social and historical enquiry" , which is often present-centred and policy orientated .However, a strength of Costa's work is its approach to the problem of multiple causation. As Sewell remarks, the notion of most analysts in simply choosing a prime cause and then trying to convey this through a chronological narrative, is not sufficiently analytical. "

Tags:social, history, community

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Taking Freud's statement that "all life leads to death" as its starting point, this paper looks at the case studies of "Dora", "Katherina" and "The Wolf Man", examining the extent to which these can be compared to a fictional narrative, such as Poe's "The Muders in the Rue Morgue." The paper goes on to discuss how psychoanaltic theory can be applied to literature, with both the analyst and the author engaging in an attempt to "narrate" lives, bringing them to a satisfactory end point or conclusion.

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"Before the scene itself has been discovered, Freud describes the "unconscious memory traces" as being in a state of "chaos". He can only bring order from this apparent chaos once he has brought the element of narratability to the case history, and therefore to the analysand's life. Once this has been done, the Wolf Man's history has been brought to its symbolic death. In the same way that a great deal of fictional texts end with a literal death, or a marriage, the Wolf Man, like Dora, reaches the "death" of his own narrative by being "cured", and is then free to marry - which, Freud tells us, he does. "

Tags:dreams, memories, neuroses, repression, unconscious

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This paper examines how "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins and "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" or "Dora" by Sigmund Freud were both written at the turn of the 19th century and share, not just a common theme of female hysteria, but also reflect the analysis and treatment of such a disorder in the highly male-dominated society of the times. It looks at the similarities between the books and shows how, in both, the protagonist's condition is made to worsen by the sheer refusal on the parts of the men to lend any credence at all to the "voices" of the sufferers.

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"Dora's tragedy lay in the fact that her own father refuses to believe her that Herr K is constantly making unwanted sexual advances, instead preferring to believe Herr K that the whole story is a concoction of Dora's, a result of the young girl's own sexual fantasies. Dora's tragedy gets accentuated by Freud choosing to believe her version, but thereafter proceeding to interpret her hysteria as resulting from her own repressed sexual desires that included tracing her throat symptoms such as loss of voice and coughing to her fantasies of her father and Frau K having oral intercourse."

Tags:herr, k, insanity, mental, illness, depression

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"This research presents a review and critique of one of Freud's case histories: "A Fragment of An Analysis of A Case of Hysteria," which is known as the case of "Dora" (Freud, 1953). In this research, a summary and interpretation of the case are presented in the initial discussion, which is followed by a critique of the case in the concluding discussion.
"DORA": SUMMARY AND INTERPRETATION
"Dora" was the name Freud used to protect the identity of a young woman whom he treated for a brief period of time in 1900 (Freeman, & Strean, 1981). Because the young woman voluntarily ended her treatment at the end of eleven weeks, and before Freud was prepared to end the treatment, Freud (1975, p. 241) referred to the case as a "fragment of an analysis of a hysteria . . . ." (...)"