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Book Synopsis Freud''s 17-year-old case study Dora is well known in the literature of psychoanalysis. Yet few know the full story--told here for the first time--of this notable woman, who walked out on Freud after three months and, in a sense, cured herself. Born into an important Jewish-Austrian family, Ida Bauer Adler suffered from petite hysteria--loss of voice, difficulty breathing, migraines, fainting spells--brought on by the overt sexuality of her relatives. Growing up in a home beset with syphilis and tuberculosis, she overcame her father''s marital infidelity, her mother''s so-called housewife psychosis and her own seduction by the husband of her father''s mistress. She married, raised a son, started a small business, stayed close with her brother, Otto, leader of the Austrian Socialist party, and survived Hitler''s invasion of Vienna. Eventually, she made her way to the U.S. to rejoin her famous son, maestro of the San Francisco Opera House.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Secrets and Lies
1. The Search for Secrets
2. The Secret of Freud's Women
3. The Bauer Ménage and Its Secrets
4. The Secret Life of Merano
5. The K's Ménage and Their Secrets
6. The Nature of Secrets
Part II: Dora and Freud
7. The Teenager and the Analyst
8. Freud's Story of the Seductions
9. Dreams and Desires
10. Dreams and Hysteria
11. The Master
Part III: Triumph Over Freud
12. The Return
13. Marriage
14. Motherhood
15. The Bauer Family After Freud
16. The Politics and Power of Otto Bauer
17. World War I
Part IV: The Aftermath
18. The New World Order
19. The Nazi Period
20. Kurt in the United States
21. Ida's Escape
22. The Aftermath
23. The Scholarship
Epilogue
Chronology
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
