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标题：Freud’s Case of Dora: Wellspring of Discovery and Discourse
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作者：Jerry L. Jennings
期刊名称：Open Journal of Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2327-5952
电子版ISSN：2327-5960
出版年度：2022
卷号：10
期号：1
页码：290-314
DOI：10.4236/jss.2022.101024
语种：English
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：After 60 years of non-critical silence, Freud’s Dora became the target of a surge of publications in the 1970s and 1980s that criticized his mismanagement of his adolescent patient. Jennings (1986) showed how this “Dora revival” was fueled by a revolutionary change in attitude toward countertransference and new understanding of adolescent development. In retrospect, the “revival” was just the start of a “Dora Wellspring” of over 200 publications about the case. Further, the most dominant and enduring theme in Dora literature has become the question of feminine psychosexual development and identity. This article reveals the crucial, albeit indirect and delayed, impact of Jacque Lacan’s “return to Freud” in the 1950s, which brought Dora and hysteria to the attention of the early French feminists, who transformed Dora into a case exemplar for their deconstruction of male patriarchy. In turn, Dora was re-examined by dozens of psychoanalysts and writers, mostly female, seeking to develop a viable theory of feminine psychosexual development in the 1980s and 1990s. This discourse stimulated another surge of publications in the new century that have sought new insights by re-examining Freud’s thinking in the Dora period and by directly applying Lacanian concepts to contemporary thinking about gender and trauma.
关键词：DoraFreudLacanFemale PsychologyHistory of PsychotherapyPsychoanalysis