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Sigmund Freud's 'The Analysis Of Hysteria'

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The Analysis of Hysteria When reading and trying to understand Freud’s thoughts, I found it can be difficult to comprehend where his thoughts were leading to. I compared this quote to Freud having hard time grasping how a patient can’t remember every specific event in their life to me and how I was having a hard time understanding where he was coming from. “An unnavigable river whose stream is at the moment choked by masses of rock and at another divided and lost among shallows and sandbanks.” (Freud 316) This quote is a good expression how I feel when I read about Freud and Dora. I am comparing myself to the river, getting stuck in the shallows and not having anywhere to flow. As I’m reading, Freud makes me believe everything he says because …show more content…

Dora was forced to engage with Feud by her father, Philip Bauer when she was only at eighteen years old. Philip Bauer was a patient of Freud’s as well. Dora’s father and mother both passed away from tuberculosis couple months apart from each other. Dora suffered from several sever symptoms such as coughing, hard breathing, anxiety, loss of voice, dragging foot and nausea staring from an early age. Some people thought that woman were faking hysteria symptoms. To treat hysteria most doctors would encourage to get married and have intercourse to reduce the chances of getting hysteria, hysteria always had a connection to the female sexuality. However, Freud decided to approach it a different way because Dora’s symptoms didn’t really fit together. Some symptoms in hysteria are going to repeat over and over for Dora. From example, Dora’s coughing starting and then went away, and then it came back and then it went away until she got the unconscious material into consciousness. This is because Dora didn’t understand what her unconscious was trying to tell her, once she would understand the unconscious the symptoms would disappear and she would no longer suffer from that

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