After that, I’d make up excuses not to be alone with him. For a very long time, I was too afraid and ashamed to tell anyone these details. I remember being on the street and feeling this enormous sense of relief that I had escaped that house. I left the bathroom, went down the same stairwell, through the living room and left the house. I remember looking down and thinking they were stitched to the carpet. But instead Dora had a violent feeling of disgust. This was just the situation to call up a distinct feeling of sexual excitement. I thought, how will we see the parade? Then he grabbed my wrist and pulled me up against him and started kissing me. He invited me to come watch with him and Peppina. For some reason, all us Jews loved watching the priests and choirboys march by. The big event every year was this church parade. He used to bring me flowers and little gifts. I can’t really blame my father for falling in love with her. She didn’t care what kind of trash I watched or how much I smoked. Peppina had one of those plump asses that men love. She still spent all day polishing - I don’t know what she polished. No, it was before that, when my father decided we should all move to the mountains for clean air and tourists. It was determined, in spite of her reluctance, that Dora should come to me for treatment. One day her parents were alarmed to find a letter in which she said she could no longer endure her life. She was in the first bloom of youth But she was a source of heavy trials for her parents.

The patient, whom I will call Dora, was a girl of engaging looks. He created a revolution in the way people think.

Whether you like him or not simply it’s a matter of intellectual history.

Sigmund Freud is one of the most revered and controversial people of the 20th century. Transcript Hysterical Girl Op-Docs is premiering one of SXSW’s picks, which re-examines Freud through the lens of his female subject.

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