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In 1900, Sigmund Freud began treating a 17-year old girl he called "Dora." Her parents brought her to therapy after she accused a family friend of sexual assault. Freud's account of his sessions with Dora was the only major case history he published of a female patient. Intercutting his published text with a scripted version told from Dora's point of view, Hysterical Girl revisits this landmark case. Woven throughout are several decades of cinema, Congressional hearings, and media coverage. What emerges is a portrait of the grip that Freud’s theory of hysteria has had on popular culture over the past century and into the present day. (South by Southwest Film Festival)
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Who doesn't know Sigmund Freud and his numerous studies, even if only superficially, like me. I was intrigued by the format of the film: It's essentially a reconstruction of the case of the hysterical Dora interspersed with lots of footage referencing various films, trials, confessions, as well as contemporary footage of the famous psychologist. Sometimes it is really difficult to capture the truth in a way that is objective on the part of the judges, but at the same time subjective with respect to the individual involved.
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