ABSTRACT
LIKE SO M A N Y PATIENTS BEFORE A N D AFTER HER, DORA CARES LITTLE for words, while Freud is never at a loss for them. Rather than reflect and symbolize using language, Dora emits clues from her body. Freud (1905) believed that this "mature" young woman (p. 22) can and should transcend the corporeal in which she unknowingly negotiates her upset at great cost to herself. He does not linger there with her, and instead catalogues her array of displacements from one organ to another, believing that the more words he uses, the more meaningful her acts become.
