Why does Dora leave? Does she have good cause? Dora most definitely has good causes to leave. Though the narration of the case-study sometimes strays from the actual patient-physician interaction, Freud, despite his progressive ideology seems to take an accusatory tone with Dora. For example, he uses words like "confess" when he talks about Dora divulging information to him. Furthermore, once in a particular analysis of her behavior, Freud says: "to prove to you...". Despite …
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…drawn from the many kinds of thoughts and actions a person engages in, it seems as though he shouldn't limit their interpretation to mainly sexual behavior. When he interpreted the dreams so specifically, I felt as though he had his intent in mind, and oftentimes he made the dream fit around his preconceived notion. This is not to say that his interpretations weren't convincing, but they were, nonetheless extremely rigid given a dream's supposed complexity.