Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy

Illness and recovery of Hans phobia(5) Treated by Hans father. Freud only took one single conversation with Hans.

Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy

The peculiarity of Hanss Phobia(1909) 1. typical sexual development of children(7): Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality(1905) a. auto-erotic features(14) eg. impelled him to touch his member(7) eg. Why dont you put your finger there?(19) b. the inconsistancy and polygamy of object choice(15, 16, 18) c. making comparision- the presence or absence of a widdler made it possible to differentiate animated and inanimated objects(9, 106) - big animals have big widdlers, small animals have small widdlers (34, 10, 13, 14) Hanss sexual curiousity 2. Hans anxiety and phobia a. castration complex (1908) b. Oedipus complex (1910)

Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy

Hans Phobia: 1. the general reversal of pleasure into unpleasure(34) leads to Hans anxiety and phobia a. castration complex(8ff.) a. castration threat (8): cut off your widdler. b. the deferred effect of the threat of castration (120): (the concern of the loss of his widdler only takes in form after his father tell s him women has no widdler (31)) itll be fixed in, of course.(34) b. Oedipus complex (111) c. the birth of Hanna (10)

Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy

Hanss anxiety: the impetus towards repression(25)

1. the libidinal feeling towards his mother(27)/ the wish to see his mothers widdler(28) eg. a. waking from an anxiety dream(23) b. first anxiety attack on the street(23) 2. breaking away from the habit of masturbating (27) eg. Hans was warned not to put his hand to his widdler(24) Hans phobia: material of his phobia unknown yet (26) eg. a. I was afraid of a horse would bite me.(24) b. The horsell come into the room. (24) Freuds suggestion(28): a. this business about horses was a piece of nonsense(28) b. tell Hans all female had no widdlers (28)

Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy

An anxiety-hysteria tends to develop more and more into a phobia (116) 1. after revealing that the horse business was nonsense, Hans didnt get better. eg. Lizzi: Dont put your finger to the white horse or itll bite you. (29 2. Hans father told Hans that women have no widdlers. (31) a. the phantasy of seeing mothers widdler under her chemise.(32) b. In Schonbrunn, Hans was afraid of the giraffe. (33) c. big animals have big widdlers, small animals have small widdlers (34) And every one has a widdler. And my will get bigger as I get bigger; its fixed in, of course. (34) 3. the phantasy of the two giraffes(37) 4. two criminal phatasies. (40, 41)

Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy

An anxiety-hysteria tends to develop more and more into a phobia (116): 1. In Hans and hiss fathers visit to Freud, Freud told Hans that his fear of the horse was actually his father. (42) a. the connection between the horses he was afraid of and the affectionate feelings towards his mother which had been revealed were by no means abundant. (41) b. eyeglasses and the black round the mouth(42, 49) c. Long before he was in the world, I went on, I had known that a little Hans would come who would be so fond of his mother that he would be bound to feel afraid of his father because of it. (42) the impulse to play like other boys with the loaded cart(48) symbolic substitute to some other wish (48) 2. the object of a phobia must at one time in the past have been the source of a high degree of pleasure(59ff): eg. Fritzl ran ever so fast and all at once he hit his foot on a stone and bled. (58) *verbal associatation: wegan, wagen (59ff) ( a waste of the analysts effort (60ff)

Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy

Anxiety transposing on to and fixed upon the elements of horse complex(51) eg. Im afraid the horses will fall down when the cart turns(46)afraid a horse in a bus fell down(49)fall down and bite (50)row(50, 54)heavily loaded(48, 51) Lump complex(56) eg1.the black drawers are black like a lump and the yellow ones like a widdle (63) eg2. A big row reminds me of lump, and a little one of widdle. (64) eg3. Hanss fear of heavily loaded carts = his fear of heavily loaded stomach (66) ( the wish of getting rid of his father wish him die ( fear of his mother being pregnant again feaces = child the theme on the riddle of life (69) eg1. the plumber came and took a big borer and stuck it into my stomach. (65) (the fear of taking a bath (66) eg2. the phantasy of Hanna travelled in the box(69-71)

I dont want to take a bath!