DORAS HYSTERIA AND THE MATURATION OF FREUD,SIGMUND TRANSFERENCE THEORY - A NEW HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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.''.