ABSTRACT
During these hundred years, a great variety of critical perspectives have been in and out of favor both in psychoanalysis and in the humanities and sciences that surround it and nourish it. One must also take into account the fact that psychoanalysts have had one hundred years of experience working clinically with Freud's ideas and working theoretically not only with his sweeping propositions but with his highly particularized ones as well. Freud's patriarchal stance may also be inferred from his neglect of the mother's role in Elisabeth's neurosis. Too quickly, he centered his analysis on the daughter's relationship to her father and other "strong" male figures. In his early years, Freud's therapeutic optimism led him to take a light attitude toward the recurrence of Elisabeth's symptoms subsequent to termination. In contrast, the later Freud would have shown a good deal of skepticism with regard to any suggestion of recovery from her neurosis.
