Freud's "Dora" - Day One

Please answer two of the questions below or come up with your own topics for discussion:

1. In what ways do you think Freud's case study can qualify as literature (or do you think it can)? Do you see a "meeting place" between literature and psychoanalysis in this text? (In other words, what might literature and psychoanalysis have in common that this text reveals?)

2. In what areas do you think Freud attempts to put forth some of his theories concerning women, gender, etc.? What are these theories as the text presents them?

3. Do you see any "blind spots" in the text? (Things that may seem obvious that Freud might miss?) Where do you think Freud fails in his analysis of Dora? (It has been regarded by critics as basically an impossibility from the outset that Dora will be 'cured' by Freud - why do you think this is the case?)