Dora Quotes

“No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed”
― Sigmund Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria

“Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear will soon convince themselves that mortals cannot hide any secret.”
― Sigmund Freud, A Case of Hysteria: Dora

“An inability to meet the real demands of love is one of the essential characteristics of neurosis; the patients are dominated by the opposition of reality and fantasy. They will flee from what they long for most intensely in their fantasies if they encounter it in real life, and they are most likely to abandon themselves to fantasies when they no longer need to fear their realization.”
― Sigmund Freud, A Case of Hysteria: Dora

“there is no such thing as an unconscious no.”
― Sigmund Freud, A Case of Hysteria: Dora

“Dreaming, in short, is one of the devices we employ to circumvent repression, one of the main methods of what may be called indirect representation in the mind.”
― Sigmund Freud, A Case of Hysteria: Dora

“at least one of the meanings of a symptom corresponds to the presentation of a sexual fantasy, while there is no such limit to the content of its other meanings.”
― Sigmund Freud, A Case of Hysteria: Dora

“I was convinced, I added, that she would be better at once if her father said that he was sacrificing Frau K. to her health. I hoped that he would not be persuaded to do so, because then she would have seen what a strong weapon she had in her hands, and would certainly not shrink from exploiting all the possibilities of illness on every future occasion. However, if her father did not give in to her, I felt sure that she would not abandon her invalid status so easily.”
― Sigmund Freud, A Case of Hysteria: Dora

“A normal dream stands, as it were, on two feet, one of which derives from the actual nature of the occasion for it, the other on a childhood event with serious consequences.”
― Sigmund Freud, A Case of Hysteria: Dora

“no serious book can now be sure of surviving.”
― Sigmund Freud, A Case of Hysteria: Dora