Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900

By Hannah S. Decker

This book studies one of Freud's famous, but unhappiest cases 'Dora'—an adolescent girl from the upper-middle-class Viennese-Jewish family that he treated in his early years as a psychoanalyst. Hannah Decker does a wonderful job of locating both Freud and Dora in their historical context and of reconstructing attitudes about Jews, women, and doctors in turn-of-the-century Vienna.

Decker explores the psychoanalytic encounter between Freud and the 18-year-old girl he called "Dora" against the backdrop of fin-de-siecle Vienna and against the backdrop, too, of the virulent antisemitism that characterized the period and pervaded the lives of Viennese Jews.

Paperback
320 pages
Free Press, 1992
5.5 x 0.8 x 8.4 inches
ISBN 9780029072127
Psychology, Austrian History