ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book reviews Dora's clinical case in light of Freud's own seduction theory. Dora were abused as a child, she must have perceived the overbearing intrusiveness of Freud's interpretations, as well as his burglar technique armed with a "collection of picklocks", as yet another abuse. The context of Dora's first dream, falling as it did after the traumatic scene by the lake, suggests that this episode had reactivated an infantile recollection so far kept dormant. Freud no longer wanted to acknowledge the fault of the fathers, including his own father, and refused to recognize Dora's repeated accusations of her father, converting them into self-accusation. According to Marie Balmary, those who have been sexually violated—by seduction—have tried to express—through hysteria, through the negation of sexuality—what they underwent.
