1. FREUD : ANALYSIS OF A PHOBIA IN A FIVE YEAR OLD BOYOR
LITTLE HANS, HORSES, GIRAFFES, PLUMBERS, LUMPF & WIDDLERS.

2. BACKGROUND FREUD’S THEORY OF PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT
FREUD’S THEORY OF PERSONALITY
GENERAL CRITICISMS OF FREUD’S WORK

3. METHODOLOGY CASE STUDY (clinical)
PARTICIPANT: LITTLE HANS, 5 YEAR OLD : HIS MOTHER HAD BEEN A PATIENT OF FREUD’S, HIS FATHER WAS A KEEN FREUDIAN
SYMPTOMS: ANXIETY, JEALOUSY, FEAR OF BEING SEPARATED FROM MOTHER, FEAR OF BEING BITTEN BY HORSES. I.e. OEDIPAL

4. PROCEDURE NOT FORMALLY PSYCHOANALYSED
FATHER QUESTIONED HANS AND INTERPRETED RESPONSES.
NOT A PROBLEM SINCE PSYCHOANALYSIS IS NOT “AN IMPARTIAL SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION, BUT A THERAPEUTIC MEASURE”

5. FINDINGS AND INTERPRETATION
HANS WAS NEUROTIC
PREOCCUPIED WITH HIS PENIS, URINATING & DEFECATION
JEALOUS OF HIS NEW BABY SISTER
FEAR OF THE BATH
SCARED HE WOULD DROWN FOR WANTING HIS SISTER TO DROWN

6. GIRAFFE FANTASY HANS HAD A FANTASY ABOUT TWO GIRAFFES
GIRAFFES = PARENTS
EVENTS = MORNING IN HAN’S PARENTS BEDROOM

7. FEAR OF HORSES
FEAR BEGAN JUST AFTER HE DEVELOPED FEAR OF LOSING HIS MOTHER, AND AT THE SAME TIME AS HE HAD BEEN WARNED ABOUT PLAYING WITH HIS WIDDLER.
FREUD ARGUED THAT HANS, WHO LIKED GETTING IN BED WITH HIS MOTHER, HAD A REPRESSED LONGING FDR HER AND FOCUSED HIS LIBIDO ON HER.

8. FEAR OF HORSES 2 BEING BITTEN
CARTS, FURNITURE VANS AND BUSES FALLING DOWN
BLACK ON HORSES MOUTHS AND THE BLINKERS THEY WORE
FEAR OF THE FATHER

9. THE ‘LUMF’ COMPLEX DISGUST OF EXCREMENT
FATHER INVESTIGATED THE SYMBOLISM OF THIS
HEAVILY LADEN CART = BODY LOADED WITH FAECES
HANS CONNECTED LUMF WITH HIS SISTER

10. PLUMBER FANTASY No 1 PLUMBER UNSCREWS BATH
STUCK A BIG BORER IN HANS’S STOMACH
FANTASY OF PROCREATION
BATH OF WATER = MOTHER’S WOMB
BORER = FATHER’S PENIS

11. PLUMBER FANTASY No 2
PLUMBER CAME AND CUT OFF HIS BEHIND AND WIDDLER AND REPLACED THEM WITH LARGER ONES
OVERCOMING OF CASTRATION ANXIETY

12. FINAL FANTASY HANS WAS PLAYING WITH HIS IMAGINARY CHILDREN……..
HANS WOULD MARRY HIS MOTHER, SHE WOULD HAVE THEIR CHILDREN.
HIS FATHER WOULD MARRY HIS OWN MOTHER AND SO NOT NEED TO BE KILLED
HANS THUS COMPLETED HIS IDENTIFICATION WITH HIS FATHER AND WAS CURED