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Dora Phillip Bauer, for treatment for aphonia and depression, brought Dora to Freud in the Fall of 1900 for psychoanalysis which Freud later recounts in ‘Dora’. Freud was anxious and determined to prove out his theory that sexuality provides the “motive power for every symptom [of hysteria]” (Lawall 1409). He goes to great lengths to, in his mind, achieve this end. Decker writes that this accounted in large part for the large number of sexual interpretations he made to Dora (123). Freud uses many terms throughout his analysis to describe Dora’s behavior and unconscious motives. Repression is the exclusion from consciousness of impulses or emotions that would otherwise cause stress (Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry 136). Freud uses this term to describe Dora’s innermost feelings for Herr K., she h