ABSTRACT
S. Freud's wish was to develop and maintain a standard procedure for analyzing the Oedipal Complex which he felt further generations of psychoanalysts would preserve. He was very successful in accomplishing this goal, as traditional and contemporary psychoanalysis preserved Freud's legacy both theoretically and clinically. The very interesting and puzzling phenomenon that runs through Freud's clinical functioning is that he seemed to ignore clinical data that did not validate his theory. Freud experienced moments as a clinician which challenged the idea of a fixed standard procedure. As early as the Case of Dora, Ida Bauer, Freud did not acknowledge the sexually seductive event that occurred between Ida Bauer, a 14-year old girl and Herr K., a 40-year old married man, as a psychodynamic in the development of her emotional problems. In fact, Freud suggested that it was a sign of her Oedipal problem that Ida Bauer rejected the sexual advances of the 40-year old Herr. K.
