ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book formulates the hypothesis that Dora's analysis had begun in approximately mid-September 1900. It shows that Dora's treatment occurred, temporally, immediately after two significant events in Freud's life that had taken place in the summer of 1900: the first fractures in his friendship with Fliess, and, probably, an erotic relationship with Minna. Freud was under the influence of the emotions when he perceived in Dora a hostile attitude and a vindictiveness that did not belong to her. Dora's case history contains a comment that could be considered to be self-analytical. Freud makes a few observations about the opposition between reality and fantasy in the neurotic: Incapacity for meeting a real erotic demand is one of the most essential features of a neurosis. Freud makes many contradictory claims regarding Dora's transference.
