Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900

by Hannah S. Decker

Overview

Exploring attitudes and beliefs surround Jews, women, and doctors in beginning of the twentieth century, Hannah S. Decker analyses one of Sigmund Freud’s “unhappiest cases” (Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time).

Evaluating the psychoanalytic encounter of Sigmund Freud and Dora, an emotionally troubled adolescent suffering from hysteria, Hannah S. Decker places the treatment of Dora into a larger social and historical context.

In an effort to provide a glimpse into the private lives of upper-middle-class Jews in fin-de-siecle Vienna, Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1990 pursues the lives of both Freud and Dora before and after their meeting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780029072127
Publisher:	Free Press
Publication date:	09/21/1992
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Hannah Decker is a Professor at the University of Houston. She is a scholar of German history and the recipient of the University of Houston Research Excellence Award and Teacher Excellence Award.

Editorial Reviews

Decker explores the psychoanalytic encounter between Freud and the 18-year-old girl he called "Dora" against the backdrop of fin-de- siecle Vienna and against the backdrop, too, of the virulent anti- semitism that characterized the period and pervaded the lives of Viennese Jews. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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