ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the case study of late-nineteenth-century psychopathologist's record. Cesare Romano revisits Dora's clinical case in light of Freud's own seduction theory. Two years after their first encounter, Freud took Dora into treatment— she "was by that time in the first bloom of youth— a girl of intelligent and engaging looks". Everyone who has commented on the case has taken it for granted that the treatment began around 14 October 1900, the day Freud communicated to Fliess that he had a new case, involving a young female patient. Jones strengthens the thesis that the treatment lasted under three months, and he declared with confidence, but rather superficially, that "the treatment lasted only eleven weeks". When Freud took Dora in for treatment, he was at a peculiar moment of his life that certainly will have affected his judgement of the familial events that emerged during the analysis.
