Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900
Author | : Hannah S. Decker |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1992-09-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780029072127 |
ISBN-13 | : 0029072123 |
Rating | : 4/5 (123 Downloads) |
Download or read book Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900 written by Hannah S. Decker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992-09-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.