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Original painting by Stefano Frassetto[1].

 

 

 

 

“…’Do you know, doctor, that today is the last time I’m here ?’

She admits that nothing angers her more than hearing someone who believes that the scene on the lake is just a figment of her own imagination.

Dora had been listening to me without contradicting, as she used to do. She seemed moved; in the most amiable tone she took leave of me with her warmest wishes for a happy new year and… she never came back.

Her father, who came and visit me some more time, was assuring she would return as she clearly wished to continue the treatment. But her father was never quite sincere. As long as he had hoped my chatter could persuade Dora that between he and Mrs. K.  there wasn’t anything else than a good friendship, he had been in favour of the treatment; but when he had seen that among my intentions this purpose did not figure, his interest in the cure was diminished a lot. I did know that Dora would not come back…

Could have I kept the girl if I had supported a part ? If I exaggerated the value I attached to her return ? I don’t know.

…Despite all the theoretical interest, all the professional wish to assist a patient, I tell myself that any psychic influence must have limits and I respect as such also the patient’s will and perspicacity.

…The psychoanalytic cure doesn’t set up a traslation, it only reveals that, as well as all the hidden  psychic processes… In psychoanalysis – due to the different factors on which is based – all the impulses, also the hostile ones, are awakened and utilized by making them conscious, and thereby the traslation itself is continuously undone…

Only fifteen months after the end of the cure and the drafting of my report I could be informed about the state of health of Dora and therefore about the result of the cure. April first… she came to me in order to complete her story and to ask again for my help; but it was enough for me to look at her face to understand that her request was not to take serious…

Years passed since that visit. Dora got married, and precisely – if all the clues don’t deceive me – with the young man about whom she was speaking in those associations at the beginning of the analysis of the second dream… so this second dream was then announcing that she would break away from her father, returning to life.”[2]

 

                                          Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio - July 11, 2020

 

[1] Stefano Frassetto is born in Turin in 1968. After his degree in Architecture at ‘Politecnico’ he begun as graphic novelist for local magazines. In the ‘90s he edited in France, on ‘Le Réverbère’ and on ‘Libération’ : then he created ‘Ippo’ for ‘Il Giornalino’ and then the stripe ‘35MQ’ for the swiss magazine ‘20 Minuti’. In 2000 he came into ‘La Stampa’ newspaper as portraitist for cultural page and the insert ‘Tuttolibri’, then for the weekly ‘Origami’. Today he works also for the swiss magazine ‘Le Temps’.

[2] “Il Caso di Dora. Frammento di un’analisi d’isteria”, by Sigmund Freud (1901) ‘Edizione integrale di riferimento’ – Bollati Boringhieri 2014, Cited : pp.179-196.

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