| Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900 Contributor(s): Decker, Hannah S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0029072123 ISBN-13: 9780029072127 Publisher: Free Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1992 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Neuropsychology |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.98" W x 9.08" (1.10 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 before and after their meeting. |
