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Freud, "Dora"

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A. Hysteria: Real or "Imagined"? In a 1984 book, The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory, Jeffrey Masson accuses Freud of undercutting the "truth" of his original theory of hysteria and its origins by abandoning the seduction theory. -- For Masson, Freud caves in to social and professional pressure and thereby sacrifices truth of his theory. What is at stake for Freud in valorizing the role of fantasy in the psychic economy? This is the move that gives structural coherence to psychoanalytic theory in its entirety: Desire (erotic wish) > Resistance > Repression > Distortion > Hysterical Symptom: Hysteria is structured is exactly the same way as all other expressions or "representations" of the unconscious mind: As in Freud's dream theory, a LATENT WISH must first be subjected to CENSORSHIP (Repression) before it can MAKE ITSELF MANIFEST in conscious life. Thus: The hysterical symptom = a distorted wish! B. Published 1905; Freud's motivation = to substantiate h

Freud, "Dora" R. Gray German 390/ Comp. Lit. 396/Engl 363/CHID 498/JSIS 488/Lit 298 "Freud and the Literary Imagination" Lecture Notes: Freud, "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria ('Dora')" I. Background: A. Hysteria: Real or "Imagined"? In a 1984 book, The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory , Jeffrey Masson accuses Freud of undercutting the "truth" of his original theory of hysteria and its origins by abandoning the seduction theory. -- For Masson, Freud caves in to social and professional pressure and thereby sacrifices truth of his theory. What is at sta

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