title: [The female gaze and theoretical writing].
abstract: Freud's Irma dream and the description of the real events accompanying the dream contained in his letters to Fliess reveal Freud's attempt to contain a traumatic experience of childhood by means of effacement and reversal. The seemingly weak patient Emma Eckstein (Irma) proves to be strong; the reversal is to the credit of the distorting (male) scientific description; the gaze upon the female experiential world is to be effaced.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005619:Freudian Theory; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D010553:Personality Development; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D014956:Writing
vernacular_title: Der weibliche Blick und die theoretische Schrift.