ABSTRACT
Ms O’s dramatization should also make us humble about raising the fundamental question or having a Socratic conversation about how to live well. What grounds our confidence that any such conversation would be more than a dangerous farce? We would need to know what the conversation is like for Ms O. And even to do that we would need to know more than what her beliefs were, conscious and unconscious. We need to know how her imagination works – and, in particular, how her imagination expresses itself in her body.12 And, though they suppressed this crucial moment from the case study, there could have been no doubt to Breuer and Freud that Ms O’s bodily imagination was expressing sexual ideas.
