Freud Dora and Vienna 1900

The psychoanalytic encounter of sigmund freud, at mid-life, and dora, an emotionally troubled adolescent suffering from hysteria, provides a glimpse into the private lives of upper-middle-class jews in fin-de-siecle vienna their professional concerns, familial relations, sexual undercurrents, and responses to the social forces of anti-semitism and the derogation of women. decker places the treatment of dora in a larger social and historical context and pursues the lives of the two protagonists b...See More