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Rereading Dora today is perhaps meaningful in creative terms, rather than as an aspiration to compete with Freud by adopting the approach of a detective with a view to deciphering what he is considered to have been unable to decipher. The author takes the view, on the other hand, that what is most important in this text is the unfolding of indications that anticipate the future, of which he draws attention to at least three. First and foremost is an aspect against which Freud vigorously defends himself - namely, the fictional narrative structure of the clinical account - which today is seen, conversely, as extraordinarily in tune with the zeitgeist, given that the most appropriate epistemological framework for present-day psychoanalysis is the non-positivistic, postmodern approach, within which the Freudian logic of Nachträglichkeit operates. Secondly, the author stresses the significance of the person of the analyst in analysis; and lastly, he discusses the importance in the text of the image of Raphael's Madonna in developing the concept of emotional unison, «recognition» or at-one-ment as a key therapeutic factor in the treatment.