ronted by her father, Herr K denied that the incident ever happened, and insisted that books with explicit sexual scenes had affected the girl, and that she had fanaticized the entire thing. The father was convinced by Herr K’s explanation and left it at that. Dora continued to insist that he break off relations with the K’s, especially Frau K. Her father refused to do so on the grounds that Herr K was innocent and that his relationship with Frau K was completely non-sexual. Dora was convinced of two things: her father and Frau K had been having an affair for years, and Herr K had tried to seduce her. "I came to the conclusion that Dora’s story must correspond to the facts in every respect," stated Freud in reference to Dora’s interpretation of reality. Analysis of her dreams was consistent with Freud’s theory of the girl’s Oedipal love for her father. He believed that Dora was reacting to her father’s affair with Frau K as if she were a wronged wife or a betrayed lover- as if she were the woman her father once loved, or the woman he now loved. Since she was neither, her reaction, which Freud interpreted as jealousy, was inappropriate. He also thought that her reaction to Herr K’s advances was "entirely and completely hysterical." Dora had felt disgust as a reaction towards Herr K. Disgust is an "oral phenomenon", and this along with her throat symptoms of coughing and loss of voice, led Freud to the absurd conclusion that her symptoms were related to her fantasies of her father and Frau K having oral intercourse. Although she denied it, Freud insisted that Dora was sexually attracted to Herr K as well. Freud stated "Her feeling for him reflected both her feeling for her father and her feeling for Frau K. That is, she identified Herr K with her father, and herself with Frau K. Thus her attraction to Herr K was a recapitulation of her father’s love affair with Frau K." Freud believed ...
