ABSTRACT
Various aspects of The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) reveal Freud as being overwhelmed and shed indispensable light on his mind-set when he was treating the paradigmatic case of Dora. The transferential and countertransferential dynamics of the treatment influenced Freud's write-up of the case both in detail and in its grand design. Nine inconsistencies in the case show that, in effect, Freud met his conquistadora.
