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When on December 31, 1900, Freud's patient Ida Bauer ("Dora") broke off her analysis, she left behind not only her physician. She left behind a number of other things that her treatment with Freud-with or without his help-had enabled her to overcome.  She abandoned the image of the cherished father, of whose death she dreamt shortly before ending the therapy. She also abandoned her previous image of the family friends, Herr and Frau Zellenka (in Freud's account, Herr and Frau K.), and forced from them confessions that Herr Zellenka had made indecent advances toward her and that Frau Zellenka had betrayed her for the sake of an adulterous aff air with her father. In this pro cess of asserting her in depen dence, walking out on Freud was a crowning gesture that broke the rules of gendered, hierarchical behavior, and could be said to have reestablished, in relation to Freud, the dignity that Bauer had lost before her father and before the Zellenkas. Freud himself did not construe Bauer's behavior quite so positively, but he did observe that the dream in which her father died announced that she was ready to leave behind the old constraints and go out into the world.  At many removes,

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN