Freud Flashcards
What was the method used in Freud’s study?
Clinical case study (participant is a patient undergoing therapy)
What was the aim in Freud’s study?
To give an account of a boy who was suffering from a phobia of horses and a range of other symptoms, and use this case to illustrate the existence of the Oedipus Complex
What was the procedure in Freud’s study?
Freud only met Little Hans once during the study, Han’s father conducted regular discussions with Han’s and passed these on to Freud, via letters, who analysed them in line with his theory. The results consist of Freud’s analysis
What case history was recorded in Freud’s study?
Around 3yo Hans became obsessed with his ‘widdler’, playing with it regularly, after being told by his mum that it would be cut off if he continued he developed a castration phobia. Han’s also saw a horse collapse and die in the street.
3.5yo Hans’ sister was born, he was separated from her while she was hospitalised
4yo Hans developed a fear of horses, specifically he though a white gourde would bite him, this was due to their large penises
4yo conflict between Hans and his father began as his father stopped him from getting in bed and cuddling his mother in the mornings, this increased Hans’ phobia of horses until he could no longer leave the house, and suffered attacks from anxiety
5yo Hans’ phobia lessened initially to white houses with black nose bands and eventually vanished, at the end the phobia was marked by two fantasies:
• Hans fantasised that he had several children, when his father asked who the mother was he would reply ‘why mummy, and you’re the granddaddy’
• Hans fantasised that a plumber had come and removed his bottom and penis, replacing them with new larger ones
What was the aim in Freud’s study?
To give an account of a boy who was suffering from a phobia of horses and a range of other symptoms, and use this case to illustrate the existence of the Oedipus Complex
What was the method used in Freud’s study?
Clinical case study (participant is a patient undergoing therapy)
What was the procedure in Freud’s study?
Freud only met Little Hans once during the study, Han’s father conducted regular discussions with Han’s and passed these on to Freud, via letters, who analysed them in line with his theory. The results consist of Freud’s analysis
What case history was recorded in Freud’s study?
Around 3yo Hans became obsessed with his ‘widdler’, playing with it regularly, after being told by his mum that it would be cut off if he continued he developed a castration phobia. Han’s also saw a horse collapse and die in the street.
3.5yo Hans’ sister was born, he was separated from her while she was hospitalised
4yo Hans developed a fear of horses, specifically he though a white gourde would bite him, this was due to their large penises
4yo conflict between Hans and his father began as his father stopped him from getting in bed and cuddling his mother in the mornings, this increased Hans’ phobia of horses until he could no longer leave the house, and suffered attacks from anxiety
5yo Hans’ phobia lessened initially to white houses with black nose bands and eventually vanished, at the end the phobia was marked by two fantasies:
• Hans fantasised that he had several children, when his father asked who the mother was he would reply ‘why mummy, and you’re the granddaddy’
• Hans fantasised that a plumber had come and removed his bottom and penis, replacing them with new larger ones
Hans also told his father he had a dream, one night two giraffes were in his room. One was ‘crumpled’ the other large. Hans took the crumpled one away from the large one, who then cried out. He then sat on the crumpled giraffe
What were the results to Freud’s study?
- houses represented Hans’ father, white bourses with black nosebands were most feared because they resembled the moustached father, also because of their large penises
- The anxiety Hans felt was really cassation anxiety triggered by his mother threat to cut off his ‘wideler’ and fear of his father caused by banishing him from the parental bed
- The giraffes in Hans’ dream represented his parents. The large giraffe which Cried out represented his father objecting to Hans. The crumbled giraffe represented his mother, the crumpling representing her genitals, the large neck of the large giraffe is a penis symbol
- The children fantasy represents Hans replacing his father solving the Oedipus complex, making his father the granddaddy
- The plumber fantasy represents identification with the father, growing a large penis, like his father
What conclusions were made from Freud’s study?
Hans suffered a phobia from bourses due to cassation anxiety and going through the Oedipus complex. Dreams and fantasies helped express this conflict and eventually it was resolved by his dream where he replaced his father role and his father became the grandfather
What’s is the Oedipus Complex?
Freudian theory when a child grows he will go through a phase where he wants to have sex with his mother and kill his father, accompanied by a fear of castration if the father finds out
What are the ethical issues with Freud’s Study?
Hans did not give consent
Hans did not have right to withdraw
Hans developed many phobias which may have been induced by Freud’s case study
What participants were used in Freud’s study, and how were they chosen?
Little Hans was studied from the age of 3-5yo, it was operating stick sampling as his father had provided Freud with the opportunity as he was a Freudian, and a strong believer in the Oedipus complex
What’s is the Oedipus Complex?
Freudian theory when a child grows he will go through a phase where he wants to have sex with his mother and kill his father, accompanied by a fear of castration if the father finds out
What are the ethical issues with Freud’s Study?
Hans did not give consent
Hans did not have right to withdraw
Hans developed many phobias which may have been induced by Freud’s case study
