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The White Hotel Summary & Study Guide Description
The White Hotel Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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The White Hotel Plot Summary
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Frau Lisa Erdman, a young opera singer of Polish Catholic and Ukrainian Jewish descent living in Vienna, Austria, has been suffering from severe pain in her left breast and ovary for several years. When conventional doctors are unable to help her, she seeks the treatment of Professor Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. Freud interviews her, gathering information about her past to try to understand what is ailing her in the present. He learns she suffers from intense, psychosexual hallucinations, and asks her to write something to explain what they are like. The result is Chapter 1 of The White Hotel, "Don Giovanni." It's so named, because it is written between the staves of the opera's score.
The poem is a vivid, outrageous tale of a young woman who meets a young soldier on a train and immediately has a sexual relationship with him. They stay together at the white...
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