Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900

By Hannah S. Decker

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029072123
• ISBN13: 9780029072127
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Cultural History

This is a very interesting and different book that is carefully written. Students of 19c and 20c history should read this book. It takes a careful, critical look at Freud and his world.