Freud - (Little Hans)

Question 0

What does Freud mean when he states the unconscious mind?

Answer 0

Our awareness is in layers and there are layers occurring below the surface. In dreams we uncover this unconscious mind

Question 1

What approach does Freud use in his study?

Answer 1

Developmental

Question 2

What are the 3 structures that the brain is split into according to Freud?

Answer 2

The Id, ego and superego

Question 3

What is the id according to Freud?

Answer 3

The mass of pleasure-seeking desires that we are born with

Question 4

What is the ego according to Freud?

Answer 4

Ego develops as you grow older and controls the desires of the id

Question 5

What is the superego according to Freud?

Answer 5

The taking on of ethics of other people

Question 6

What are the ego defence mechanisms according to Freud?

Answer 6

Denial, Displacement, Projection, Repression, Isolation and Regression

Question 7

What are the stages that a child goes through during their development according to Freud?

Answer 7

Oral,anal,Phallic,Latency and Adult genital stage

Question 8

What are the phallic and latency periods according to Freud?

Answer 8

Phallic - focus on genitals

Latency - sexual feelings are repressed

Question 9

What is the Oedipus Complex?

Answer 9

Where a boy in the phallic stage of development wants to possess his mother and replace his father who he sees as a rival

Question 10

What was the aim of Freuds study?

Answer 10

To see if his theory about personality development would be supported in particular infantile sexuality and the Oedipus Complex
Also to test his explanation of how phobias develop and to ability to use his method of treatment of psychoanalysis

Question 11

Who were the participants within this study by Freud?

Answer 11

Little hans was aged between three and five during the period of this case study the other main people involved with his father mother and sister.

Question 12

What was the procedure of Freud’s study?

Answer 12

Hans father recorded events and conversations with hans and sent these regularly to Freud. Both Freud and the father offered interpretations of Han’s behaviour. On one occasion during the case study Hans was taken to meet Freud.

Question 13

What were the sources of Han’s anxieties during his early life according to Freud

Answer 13

Mother, Father and Sister

Question 14

Why was Han’s mother a source of his anxiety in Freuds study?

Answer 14

He had sexual fantasies about her but she had threatened to cut off his penis which led to castration anxiety

Question 15

Why was Han’s father a source of his anxiety in Freuds study?

Answer 15

Han’s saw his father as a rival towards his mother and wished him dead. But at the same time he loved his father and this created a conflict of emotions

Question 16

Why was Han’s sister a source of his anxiety in Freuds study?

Answer 16

He wished she would drown which led him believe that his mother may drop him in the bath

Question 17

Why did Han’s have a phobia white horses according to Freud?

Answer 17

Han’s heard a father tell his daughter that if she touched a horse, it would bite her
This was linked to Han’s castration anxiety
Han’s put this anxiety into fear of horses

Question 18

Why was Han’s afraid of horses pulling carts or buses according to Freud?

Answer 18

Han’s recalled an occasion when he was walking with his mother and they saw a horse pulling a bus. The horse fell down and kicked his legs about - Han’s through the horse was dead which caused anxiety

Question 19

What did Han’s fear of horses pulling carts/buses lead to?

Answer 19

This created a generalised anxiety disorder where Han’s became afraid of leaving his home

Question 20

What did the Act of the horse kicking out represent to Han’s according to Freud?

Answer 20

• Han’s wanted his dad dead like the horse

* Han’s was interested in Lumf (poo) the cart falling over sounded like Lumf hitting the water in the toliet

Question 21

What was Han’s dream about giraffes?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

How did Freud perceive Han’s dream about giraffes?

Answer 22

The big giraffe was the father while the crumpled one was Han’s mother.
This a scene in morning routine in bed

Question 23

What was Han’s fantasy about criminal activity?

Answer 23

With my father in the train and we smashed a window and the policeman took us off with him

Question 24

What did the Criminal fantasy say about little Han’s according to Freud?

Answer 24

Wished to do something forbidden to his mother which his father was also doing

Question 25

What was Han’s plumber fantasy?

Answer 25

I was in the bath and then the plumber came and first unscrewed it. Then he took a big borer and stuck in my stomach. The plumber came and first he took away my behind with a pair of pincers, and then he gave me another, and the same with my widdler

Question 26

What was Han’s fathers interpretation of the plumber fantasy?

Answer 26

I was in bed with mummy. Then Daddy came and sent me away. He pushed me away with his big penis.
Also Han’s wanted a large penis and bum like his father

Question 27

What was Han’s fantasy of where babies came from?

Answer 27

He called laden-carts stork-boxes. Storks bring babies while boxes deliver them
However then his mum told him where babies actually came from and then Han’s lost his anxiety of carts

Question 28

What was Han’s fantasy of becoming a daddy and why was this so important?

Answer 28

Han’s had worked out a solution that both he and his dad were married to Han’s mother which meant Han’s had overcome his Oedipus complex as he could identify with his father