ficant and fascinating a case, after all, that he wrote a book about her. His analysis of her is perhaps the most well-known of all his specific analyses. Is it too much to conclude, then, that perhaps Freud felt betrayed and abandoned when Dora left him and his analysis before he had finished healing and recreating her? Freud himself alludes to these feelings in a number of instances. He writes, for example, after being revisited by Dora some time after she had left the original therapy, "I do not know what kind of help she wanted from me, but I promised to forgive her for having deprived me of the satisfaction of affording her a far more radical cure for her troubles" (112). The arrogant self-centered nature of Freud's "forgiveness" of Fora would be farcically comical if it were not for the obvious fact that Freud has no sense of humor whatsoever when it comes to his view of
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