Gj. Makari, DORAS HYSTERIA AND THE MATURATION OF FREUD,SIGMUND TRANSFERENCE THEORY - A NEW HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 45(4), 1997, pp. 1061-1096
The emergence of Freud's 1905 revision and elaboration of transference
theory is situated within the context of his emerging understanding o
f neurosogenesis. Immediately after the seduction theory lost its cred
ibility in the fall of 1897, Freud maintained a traumatic model for hy
steria and increasingly hypothesized that repressed childhood masturba
tion was fundamental to the creation of hysteria. Following this inter
est in masturbation, Freud - influenced in part by Havelock Ellis's co
ncept of autoerotism - put forth his first post-seduction theory model
of neurosogenesis in December 1899. In this model two different devel
opmental stages of psychosexual object relatedness-the ''autoerotic''
and the ''alloerotic'' - determined and differentiated later psychoneu
rotic symptomatology. This etiological schema organized the next psych
opathological writing Freud did, his ''Fragment of an Analysis of a Ca
se of Hysteria,'' in which Ida Bauer's hysteria was seen as due to ora
l zone autoerotic overstimulation and, later, to her object-directed g
enital masturbation. Freud in a postscript reasoned that in the analyt
ic situation the production of neurotic symptoms ceases and is replace
d by the creation of transferences. Hence it is argued that Freud, fol
lowing his new two-tiered understanding of neurosis, expanded his form
al description of transference by creating two analogous forms of tran
sference, the ''reprint'' and the ''revised edition.''.