Freud 1909

Question 1

What are the stages of psychosexual development

Answer 1

Oral 0-1
Anal 1-3
Phallic 3-5
Latency 5/6 - puberty
Genital puberty - maturity

Question 2

What is the Oedipus complex?

Answer 2

A desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex and a sense of anger with the parent of the same sex

Question 3

When are the sequence of the stages evident from?

Answer 3

Maturation (nature) and how the child is treated by others (nurture)

Question 4

Background to the study

Answer 4

Hans was a cheerful child till he developed his phobia when there was a difference between what he said and what he thought. Freud thought this was due to what was going on in his unconscious mind.

Question 5

Who was Hans referred to?

Answer 5

Freud by his father

Question 6

What did Freud do?

Answer 6

Interpreted his behaviour and told him why he was thinking the way he was (psychoanalysis)

Question 7

Research method

Answer 7

Longitudinal case study

Question 8

How was data gathered?

Answer 8

Through his father who observed and questioned Hans. He sent records of the convos to Freud who gave his father advice on how to proceed

Question 9

How long did it focus on Hans for?

Answer 9

When he was aged 3-5

Question 10

What happened before Hans was 3?

Answer 10

He started to show interest in his little widdler

Question 11

What did his mum threat him about?

Answer 11

Sending DR A to cut his widdler off

Question 12

What happened when Hans was 3.5 years old?

Answer 12

He had a little sister who he resented and he wanted his mum to drop her in the bath so she would drown him

Question 13

What happened a year after his sister was born?

Answer 13

Hans developed a fear of being bitten by horses

Question 14

Why was he scared of being bitten by horses?

Answer 14

He overheard his father say to a child ‘don’t put your finger to the white horse or it will bite you’ and he saw a horse fall down and kick about with its legs while it was pulling a carriage

Question 15

What did his fear generalise to?

Answer 15

Buses and carts

Question 16

What were his fantasises?

Answer 16

The giraffe fantasy
2 plumber fantasies
The parenting fantasies

Hans was worried his mother would go away and prone to the day dreams and fantasises

Question 17

Key findings

Answer 17

Little Hans fear of horses was a subconscious fear of his father. The dark around the mouth and the blinkers resembled his dad’s moustache and glasses. He was scared as he was going through the OP.
His fascination of his widdler was because he was going through the OP.
Hans dream about the giraffe was him trying to take his mother away from his father so he could have her to himself.
Hans fantasy of wanting to be a father linked to the OC.
Hans fantasy of the father was him passing through the OP.

Question 18

Conclusions

Answer 18

Freuds study provided support for:
His theory of psychosexual development
His suggestion that boys experience the OC in the phallic stage
His concept of unconscious determinism which shows people are unaware of their behaviour
His theory of psychoanalysis to treat the unconscious by bringing it into the conscious so it can be resolved

Question 19

Theories on which the study is based

Answer 19

Stages of psychosexual development

Question 20

Where was Freud from

Answer 20

Austria

Question 21

Giraffe fantasy

Answer 21

In the night there was a big giraffe and a crumpled one. The big one called out because I took the crumpled one away from it. Then it stopped calling out, then I sat on top of the crumpled one.

Big giraffe - resembled dad or his large penis
Crumpled - wife or genital organ

Question 22

Plumber fantasy 1

Answer 22

I was in the bath and then the plumber came and unscrewed it. Then he took a big borer and stuck it into my stomach.

This was being scared of his mum letting him go and him drowning

Question 23

Parenting fantasy

Answer 23

Hans was the children’s daddy, his mummy was their mummy and his father was the grandad

This meant the Oedipus complex had made a happier solution, instead of putting his father out the way he made him grandfather

Question 24

Plumber fantasy 2

Answer 24

The plumber came and he took away my behind with a pair of pincers, and then gave me another, and then did the same with my widdler.

Bigger penis as he wants to be like his father
Overcoming his fear of castration - accepting doctor would take away his penis but the outcome was a happy one as it made it bigger