A Dream of Undying Fame by Louis Breger

Author:Louis Breger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2010-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

Freud’s approach to treatment changed a good deal in the five years between 1887 and 1892. In the first treatment that he reported in full, that of Fanny Moser, he used hypnotic suggestion in an authoritative manner, attempting to banish her troubling emotions and memories. This produced only temporary relief, and hypnotism played no part in the treatment of Lucy R. and Aurelia Kronich. By the time he treated Ilona Weiss, there was no attempt to wipe out her memories; on the contrary, he worked at getting her to recover her thoughts and express them fully. Although the change in his treatment technique is important, of greater significance is what these patients reveal about the causes of neuroses. In Freud’s description, it is abundantly clear that all of them suffered from disturbing life events—from the severe traumatic deaths and persecution of Fanny Moser, to the attempted rape by her own father of the fourteen-year-old Aurelia Kronich, to the severe and punitive consciences (a result, in part, of the social constraints placed on women) that led Bertha Pappenheim and Ilona Weiss to sacrifice their own lives to care for family members. Freud presented a picture of all these events, but one also sees the beginnings of his sexual theories making their appearance, in remarks about Frau Moser’s supposed “sexual abstinence” and Aurelia’s “virginal anxiety.” This substitution of sexuality for trauma and other actual events became more apparent in his final chapter in Studies.

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