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Detailed explanation-1: -The patient’s real name was Ida Bauer (1882–1945); her brother Otto Bauer was a leading member of the Austro-Marxist movement.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dora was the pseudonym Sigmund Freud gave to the teenage girl who claimed that her father had offered her to his friend in exchange for the continued sexual favours of the friend’s wife. Freud used this, his first case history, to show how the interpretation of dreams could be used in analysis.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Studies on Hysteria (1895), Breuer and Freud presented a series of case studies and theoretical articles on the etiology of hysteria and the role of hypnosis in treating it. The authors claimed that hysterical symptoms have a symbolic meaning of which the patient had no conscious knowledge.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sergei Pankejeff (1886-1979), or the ‘Wolf Man’, as he came to be known, was one of Freud’s most famous patients. A Russian of noble birth, Pankejeff was 23 years old when he began his treatment with Freud in February 1910. He was in a state of complete mental collapse.