that the two men were involved in an unspoken conspiracy in which Dora was a pawn: her father would ignore Herr K’s attempted seductions of his daughter in exchange for Herr K’s pretend ignorance of his wife’s affair with Dora’s father. Freud also knew the father’s motive for bringing Dora to see him. He wanted Freud to talk her out of believing that there was anything more than friendship between him and Frau K. Dora was a young girl caught in a web of lies and betrayal, where she could not turn to anyone for help. Her parents were directly involved in deceiving her, and Freud was trying to brainwash her into thinking that it was her fault for feeling the way she did, and that it was all in her mind. Freud knew the real situation, yet he consistently hid the truth from Dora, and led her to believe that she had deeply rooted problems that started in her childhood. In reality, Dora was having a very normal reaction to the harsh truth of what her father was doing. Freud’s treatment of Dora lasted for three months, until she abruptly terminated it, much to Freud’s disappointment. Freud interpreted her unexpected termination of her therapy as evidence of his newly developed theory of transference. This theory states that the patient transfers to the therapist old feelings and conflicts, which she once felt for people in her past, such as her mother and father. Freud believed that in the same way that she had transferred her love for her father to Herr K, she now transferred some of the same feelings towards Freud. But these feelings were positive and negative, and as a result of the treatment she received at the hands of Herr K and her father, she would take revenge on all of them by deserting Freud. Freud thought that Dora was saying, "Men are so detestable that I would rather not marry. This is my revenge." Nearly a year and a half later, Dora revisited Freud for treatment of facial neuralgia. Fre...
