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Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy - Little Hans Chronological Summary of Events 1903 Hans born. (April) 1906 3 to 3  ¾ First reports. 3  ¼ to 3  ½ First visit to Gmunden. (Summer) 3  ½ Castration threat. 3  ½ Hanna born. (October) 1907 3  ¾ First dream. 4 Removal to new flat. 4  ¼ to 4  ½ Second visit to Gmunden. Episode of biting horse. (Summer) 1908 4  ¾ Episode of falling horse. Outbreak of phobia. (January) 5 End of analysis. (May) Background Little Hans (Herbert Graf) was born in April 1903 to Olga Graf (mother) and Max Graf (father). He undertook four months of treatment, which was conducted by Hans’ father himself, and supervised by Freud, who took somewhat of a backseat. Freud wanted to explore what†¦show more content†¦This contributed to Freud’s idea of ‘object-choice’ and ‘homosexuality in children’ suggesting that most children have homosexual tendencies as they are only acquainted with one kind of genital organ. Freud intimates that because little Hans had a widdler, and gave so much importance to it, he chose to have this ‘familiar feature’ as his sexual object. It is also important to note that in his future development he demonstrated ‘an energetic masculinity with traits of polygamy; he knew how to vary his behaviour, too, with his varying feminine objects—audaciously aggressive in one case, languishing and bashful in another. His affe ction had moved from his mother on to other objects of love, but at a time when there was a scarcity of these it returned to her.’ Hans demonstrates elements of the sexual relations of a child to his parents discussed in Interpretation of Dreams [1900a, in Section D (ÃŽ ²) of Chapter V; Standard Ed., 4, 248 ff.] and in Three Essays [1905d, Standard Ed., 7, 222 ff.] with regard to being a little Oedipus who who wanted to have his father ‘out of the way’, to get rid of him, so that he might be alone with his beautiful mother and sleep with her. This wish had originated during his summer holidays at Gmunden and had developed with the alternating presence and absence of his father (due to work commitments). Hans identified that his fathers’ absenteeism gaveShow MoreRelatedAre there any advantages to thigpen and cleckley‚Äà ´s study over freuds is way of working with patients?1049 Words   |  5 Pagescleckley’s study over freuds is way of working with patients? Freud’s study, Analysis of a phobia in a five-year old boy, is the account of the treatment of little Hans; a five year old boy who had been suffering form anxiety that led to a number of phobias. Freud uses this case study as strong support for his psychoanalytic ideas concerning; the unconscious determinism, psychosexual development, the Oedipus complex, the cause of phobias and psychoanalytic therapy itself. 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