Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Psychoanalytic Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
63,3 (1994) 518-535
Keywords:
Bauer, Dora
;
Freud, Sigmund,
;
Self-hate (Psychology)
;
Jews Identity
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews
Abstract:
Describes the antisemitism prevalent in turn-of-the-century Viennese society, and its probable influence on the personality development and psychological problems of Freud's patient "Dora" (Ida Bauer). Dora was analyzed by Freud for three months, between October-December 1890, when she abruptly ended the therapy. Two months after the birth of her son in 1905, she, her husband and son were converted to Protestantism. In 1939 she fled from Vienna, as did Freud and his family. Dora's conversion and renunciation of her Jewish identity may be seen in terms of her hysterical conversion reactions and her identification of Jewishness with her despised self, an aspect which was not touched upon by Freud in his analysis of her case.
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