Ida bauer biography

Four years after Freud has treated her, he tells us, his young patient whom he called Dora ( Ida Bauer) has moved on. A significant change has taken place in her life.

She had, indeed, married a would-be musician and given birth to a little boy.

She and her husband had also converted to Christianity in an effort, apparently, to spare the child the kind of difficulties they were to undergo as Jews.

Freud does not speak of religion in this case history. He is mainly concerned here in using Dora’s two dreams to prove his theory on the interpretation of dreams.

Ida Bauer was actually only seventeen when she was brought to Freud by her wealthy father, though Freud says she was eighteen.

( Freud consistently makes the girl older than she really was all through the case history.) Her tale of her father’s attempt to get her to be “more reasonable,” is well known. Her father expected his daughter to allow the advances of his friend, Herr K, the husband of the father’s mistress, and at the