Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In analysing the case study of Sigmund Freud’s Dora, the author refers to the thoughts of Michel Foucault and James Hillman. Foucault treated the case study as an example of knowledge-power, while Hillman treated it as a type of literary fiction. Dora’s case study is, as Hillman observes, “the Iliad of psychotherapy”, the first great therapeutic story. Freud, combining the fields of medicine and literature, discovered a vehicle by which he could announce a new idea and method to the world. In this article, the author strives to show how fiction brought to life a new type of power, created truth, and convinced individuals to accept it.
Source: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
Author: Maciej Popławski
Institution: University of Warsaw
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4402953462