Abstract
In analysing the case study of Sigmund Freud’s Dora, the author refers to the thoughts of Michel Foucault and James Hillman. Foucault treated the case study as an example of knowledge-power, while Hillman treated it as a type of literary fiction. Dora’s case study is, as Hillman observes, “the Iliad of psychotherapy”, the first great therapeutic story. Freud, combining the fields of medicine and literature, discovered a vehicle by which he could announce a new idea and method to the world. In this article, the author strives to show how fiction brought to life a new type of power, created truth, and convinced individuals to accept it.
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