Freud (1909) Flashcards
Outline Freuds psychosexual stages.
oral stage: 0 – 1 year
anal stage: 1 – 3 years
phallic stage: 3 – 5/6 years
latency stage: 5/6 years Genital stage: puberty – maturity.
What occurs in the Phallic stage.
The Oedipus complex for boys and the Electra complex for girls forms part of the phallic stage.
This is resolved through the process of identification, which involves the child adopting the characteristics of the same sex parent.
What was the aim of Freuds research?
To both document the case of Little Hans’ and to provide support for his psychodynamic theory.
What research method was used in research by Freud?
A longitudinal case study.
Data was gathered by Little Han’s father
Outline the sample used in Freud’s study
Little Hans (Herbert Graf ) was five years old at the time of this study.
Outline Little Hans phobia and background prior to the reserach
Just before he was three, Hans started to show a lively interest in his ‘widdler’ and the presence/absence of this organ in others – human and
non-human.
At this time he had a tendency to masturbate, bringing threats from his mother to send for Dr A. to cut it off.
When he was three and a half, Hans gained a baby sister, Hanna, whom he resented and subsequently, subconsciously, wished his mother would drop in the bath so she would drown.
Outline Little Han’s daydreams and fantasies
Little Hans’ fear of horses was considered by Freud as a subconscious fear of his father. This because the dark around the mouth of a horse + the
blinkers resembled the moustache and glasses worn by his father. He was fearful of his father because he was experiencing the Oedipus complex.
Hans’ daydream about giraffes was a representation of him trying to take his mother away from his father so he could have her to himself –
another feature of the Oedipus complex.
Hans’ fantasy of becoming a father again linked to his experiencing the Oedipus complex
Hans’ fantasy about the plumber was interpreted as him now identifying with his father and the final family fantasy was interpreted as the
resolution of the Oedipus Complex.
