Freud Day 2

After Freud interpret's Dora's dream about the jewel case, she tells him that when she woke up from the dream, she smelled smoke. Freud interprets this as a connection to himself. The three dominant men in her life, Freud, her father, and Herr K all smoke. Freud thought that the smell of smoke represented Dora's wanting to kiss a man (which would smell like smoke if the man was a smoker). He concludes that she thought of kissing Freud during one of their sessions. "I came to the conclusion that the idea had probably occured to her one day during a sitting that she would liek to have a kiss from me. This would have been the exciting cause which led her to repeat the warning dream and to form her resolution of stopping the treatment. Everything fits together very satisfactorily upon this view; but owing to the characteristics of 'transference' its validity is not susceptible of definite proof." (pg 66)The definition of transference is "a phenomenon in psychoanalysis characterized by unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another." He thought that she was redirecting feelings for someone else onto Freud (unconciously). This all seems to make sense but I feel like Freud put the peices together so that it would fit his own theory. He interpreted this which is great but what was Dora's view on it? She wouldn't give him any information on the subject so he filled in the blanks.

Through dream anaylsis, Freud let the patient tell the dream and then associate it to whatever came to mind. It seemed like sometimes Freud only cared about his interpretation of the dreams. Even if Dora refused to agree with his interpretation Freud would run with it.