What Freud Did Not Write About Dora

Abstract

Using clinical material and an allegory, I argue that Freud's lack of attention to the clinical theory of psychoanalysis set a course that has led to considerable ambiguity and confusion about what actually occurs in an analysis. In “Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria,” Freud (1905) described very little of his interactive experiences with Dora and minimized his most humane contribution to Dora.