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| | Freud's Dora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Freud's Dora, the person who lost first her name and then her body to a text but who still faintly waves to us from within its gaps, has now, in the book under review, become Dora's Freud, the authoritative mirror of Freud's sickness, the effective resistance to her doctor's trauma-inducing attempt to cure her. |
 | | He is in fact the cause of repeated trauma to Dora through his insistence on what he thinks of as Dora's love for Herr K. His preferred solution, that Dora marry Herr K., is forced upon Dora repeatedly as the only possible solution to the family problem and therefore her duty. |
 | | It is a performative attempt to reveal and clarify Dora's emotions, her fancies, hopes, and fears, not a proposal meant to goad her into an action that Freud knew could not have provided a solution of any sort for those adults. |
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