Jacobsen, there has been a reinterpretation and re-selection of aspects of the case in order to bring it in line with Freud's other case histories in Studies in Hysteria . Anna O. is implicated as well. This argument and interpretation of the data seems a bit strained. This tricksterism of the field is noted at the beginning and at the end of the book. But, for all its failings, psychoanalysis is the least inclined of all therapies to accept reports of trauma at face value, and analysts are frequently attacked for failing to go along with stories of victimization.
Psychoanalysis continues to take it on the chin.
There seems to be a move afoot just now to take Freud and the other analysts apart, to deconstruct them to shreds. One is led to question what is behind it. Meanwhile, the image of hysteria from one hundred and twenty-five years ago hangs over Freud's couch and over psychoanalysis.