Freud illuminates his dissection of the symptoms of a girl he names Dora. By exploring hysteria in the girl and her unconscious existence, he also shows us more about our own perceptions of the social self. Freud demonstrates to us that our perceptions of the world lie in the parts of our mind that we cannot consciously comprehend, as evidenced by the characters that surround Dora and her repressive actions.
On page 23 of the text, Freud proposes that Dora exhibits such repressive action in her disgust for an unwanted advance by Herr K (a father substitute). This leads to, what seems to be, an unconscious effort to displace this discomfort which primarily lies in her perception of genital region to her oral region, by means of her symptoms: dyspnoea (difficulty in breating) and aphonia (cessation of verbiage). With this in mind, we can see that Freud sees society as something under the waters of our conscious thoughts and in effect determine our behavior, because of Dora's......

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Title: Society Lies In The Unconscious
Approximate Word Count: 425
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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