The interest of revisiting Dora today is to look at which of the symptoms and structure belong to hysteria and which to psychosomatic disorders. It is a question that is still relevant today because the hysterical personality and the symptoms it presents, its lability and the multiplication of its identifications, make use of all the colours of psychopathology and defensive constructions. Current developments include: the hysterical games of seduction and jealousy, hatred of the primal scene, the conflict between a hyper-eroticized, autoerotic infantile sexuality and an anti-cathected genital sexuality, identifications, primary erotogenic masochism, somatic compliance, homosexuality and pseudo-bisexuality. Analysing the transference and countertransference is an essential lever in the treatment of the hysterical patient. What Freud was unable to sense, prevent or interpret led to acting-out when he broke off Dora’s treatment.