Discussion questions and answers to Freud's "Dora."

Freud says, on page 2, that, "hysterical symptoms are the expression of their most secret and repressed wishes." Therefore the patient is not going to betray those secrets easily, especially if they exist deep within the subconscious and the patient does not even know of them. Later, on page 10, Freud discusses the impact of these symptoms on the discourse between patient and physician. While the patient may be willing to give great detail about a certain …

…for Dora's resentment of her mother, it still seems like of all people that is who she should seek solace with, or at least appear to seek solace with her. Dora complains that her father will not stop the affair with Frau K. and while Freud tells us that this is because of Dora's affections for her father and Herr K. it seems that the mother should play a more prominent role in Dora's paramnesia.