cared. With Freud's help, Lucy R. eventually came to the realization that her employer did not care for her in the same way that she cared for him. Eventually, she recovered from most of her symptoms. During her recovery, she also experienced elements of the psychodynamic transference that Freud described in his writings. In general, Freud's transference principle typically accounts for the romantic feelings or sexual desires that patients undergoing psychotherapy often experience for their therapists. In the specific case of Lucy R., that transference manifested itself in her replacing her olfactory hallucinations of burnt pudding for the imagined odor of burning cigars. Freud frequently smoked cigars during his sessions and also described other similar transference experience having to do with his female patients and his cigars in that regard.

illustrates the classic Freudian concepts of psychological repression of unpleasant thoughts or of thoughts that the subject considers unsuitable for the conscious mind to acknowledge. It also demonstrates both the phenomena of displacement and of the evolution of psychosomatic symptoms in that respect. By helping Lucy R. To recognize and reintegrate her repressed thoughts into her consciousness, Freud enabled her to recover from her psychosomatic symptoms. At the same time, the case also illustrates that Freud was correct in assuming that his patients are always aware of their unconsciously repressed thoughts on some level and that bringing those thoughts into their consciousness resolves the symptoms attributable to displacement. Finally, the case also illustrates Freud's concept of psychodynamic transference.