The Story of Young Dolores

Author: Freud
Translator: Qian Hualing / Country: Australia/Australia
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: The master of psychoanalysis, Freud, guides us into the mysterious and unpredictable depths of the mind and dream world of the young girl Dora, exploring the significant impact of family emotional relationships and the surrounding environment on the variation of adolescent female psychological development. The Case of Dora is a perfect combination of Freud's rigorous clinical practice and his genius in literary imagination—it is both a scientifically professional case study in psychopathology and a thought-provoking, engaging, and uniquely written literary story. Due to Freud's profound literary talent and the elegance and fluency of his theoretical writing, he is widely recognized as a master of German prose. In 1930, Freud received the Goethe Prize, which he considered one of his greatest honors in life. Naturally, Freud is also worthy of this title, and this is one of the major characteristics of his academic theoretical research. Later, she continued to meet with Mr. K, but the matter was never mentioned again, and Dora kept this secret until she confessed it during therapy. Shortly after that incident, she began to avoid meeting with Mr. K alone. The K family was preparing to travel abroad for a few days, and Dora had also planned to go. But after the kiss, she insisted on not going without hesitation. At this time, the behavior of this 16-year-old girl was completely hysterical—in a sexual context, if a person's feelings are mostly or entirely unpleasant, I would undoubtedly consider her hysterical, regardless of whether she has physical symptoms. The explanation for this "rejection" is one of the most important and also most difficult problems in psychiatric psychology. I believe I am still far from this goal, and I can only provide part of what I truly know. Of course, when analyzing the characteristics of Dora's case, focusing only on "rejection" is not enough; we must also consider "transference." In that situation, Dora's feelings were not like those of a healthy woman's genitalia, but were dominated by an unpleasant sensation, which was the discomfort of the mucous membrane at the anal orifice—a sense of disgust. Her lips were stimulated by that kiss, and this stimulation undoubtedly remained on her lips, determining the location of the sensation. However, I also discovered another related factor. The reason that Dora felt disgusted by that kiss was not accidental; otherwise, she would not have forgotten it and would not have mentioned it. I knew Mr. K because he came to visit me with the patient's father, and he was very young and outwardly attractive. Dora's feelings in that situation did not become a permanent, even during therapy, it was only latent. Dora was a picky eater, and she admitted to having little interest in food. On the other hand, that kiss left another consequence: it caused Dora to develop a hallucination that occasionally appeared, even in the story she told me. She said she could still feel the strange pressure of Mr. K's embrace on her upper body.