In Dora's Case

These new writings - feminist, deconstructive, and Lacanian, for the most part - have a wild playfulness and a sort of sexual sparkle that...give them an extraordinary verve...The sex-playful explications of Gallop, Moi, Hertz, et al...carry an unmistakable transferential weight. -- Janet Malcolm The New Yorker

Charles Bernheimer is Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Figures of III Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France and Flaubert and Kafka: Studies on Psychopoetic Structure.Claire Kahane is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo and co-editor of a volume of feminist psychoanalytic essays, The M[O]ther Tongue.

Introduction Part 1 by Charles Bernheimer Part 2 by Claire Kahane 1. A Footnote to Freud's "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria", by Felix Deutsch, M.D. 2. Reality and Actuality: An Address, by Erik H. Erikson 3. Freud and Dora: Story, History, Case History, by Steven Marcus 4. Intervention on Transference, by Jacques Lacan 5. The Scene of Psychoanalysis: The Unanswered Questions of Dora, by Suzanne Gearhart 6. Dora: Fragment of an Analysis, by Jacqueline Rose 7. Freud's Dora, Dora's Hysteria, by Maria Ramas 8. Representation of Patriarchy: Sexuality and Epistemology in Freud's Dora, by Toril Moi 9. Keys to Dora, by Jane Gallop 10. Dora's Secrets, Fred's Techniques, by Neil Hertz 11. Questioning the Unconscious, : The Dora Archive, by Jerre Collins, J. Ray Green, Mary Lydon, Mark Sachner, and Eleanor Honig Skoller 12. Enforcing Oedipus: Freud and Dora, by Madelon Sprengnether 13. The Untenable, by Helene Cixous and Catherine Clement 14. Reading Dora Reading: Freud's "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria", by Sara Van Den Berg 15. Reflections: J' appelle un chat un chat, by Janet Malcolm