ABSTRACT
Of all of Sigmund Freud's cases, arguably the most has been written about his "Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria". The volume of writing about this case is at least in part a product of feminist critiques and engagements with Freudian psychoanalysis, with the case taken as evidence of the sexism inherent to Freud's work. Perhaps the most well-known collection of accounts of Freud's "Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria" appears in the edited collection In Dora's Case. In his analysis of the "Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria" Freud makes much of a range of associations between jewellery, female genitalia, and Dora's relationship with her father and Herr K. In terms of the slap that Dora gave to Herr K. by the lake, Ellie Ragland and P.Gherovici give two differing accounts of this event in terms of sexuation and identification.
