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This document summarizes Sigmund Freud's case study of a boy named Hans and his analysis of Hans developing an Oedipus complex. Freud believed Hans' horse phobia was related to his fear of castration and desire to replace his father in having his mother to himself. The case study showed how Hans' unconscious desires for his mother and jealousy of his father were typical of the Oedipus complex Freud said children experience from ages 3 to 6 where they unconsciously want the parent of the opposite sex and resent the same-sex parent.

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Hans Case Study: (Summary)

This document summarizes Sigmund Freud's case study of a boy named Hans and his analysis of Hans developing an Oedipus complex. Freud believed Hans' horse phobia was related to his fear of castration and desire to replace his father in having his mother to himself. The case study showed how Hans' unconscious desires for his mother and jealousy of his father were typical of the Oedipus complex Freud said children experience from ages 3 to 6 where they unconsciously want the parent of the opposite sex and resent the same-sex parent.

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Shabbir Hussain,

bba191033,
psychology BBA-II A

Assignment # 02

Hans Case Study


(Summary)
DR. Freud gave that case study, and he was a psychologist. One of Freud’s work topics is the
importance of the first few years of life in the subsequent personality development. DR. Freud
gave that case study, and he was a psychologist. One of Freud’s work topics is the importance
of the first few years of life in the subsequent personality development. According to Freud,
case study by Hans is based on the idea of the Oedipus complex which is an important
psychological concept. In reality, this case study is about the care of five-year - old boy whose
name is Hans for his horse phobia. Hans' father had been a great fan of the work of DR Freud.
Hans' father wrote to Freud about the situation with Hans. The reports were sent to Freud
when Hans was 3 years old and continued until he was 5. He had major interest in his widdler
when Hans was 3 years old. He believed that all animate things, including his parents, had
widdlers too. He told his mother one day that "you have a widdler as well?" Hans was 3 and a
half years old when his mother bore his sister, Hanna. He was really jealous of her friend. Hans
confessed to his father that he had watched the bath of his sister and wished that his mother
would let her go. This caused him to fear that his mom would drop him while he was bathing.
He enjoyed playing while holding his widdler when he grew to 4. When his mother discovered
that she had warned him not to touch his widdler, otherwise she would call and cut him off.
Hans has developed anxiety about castration as he does not want to lose his widdler. Hans also
had a horse’s phobia because he was terrified that he would be bite by a horse with a black
mark on his mouth, and that was also related to his fear of big widdlers. Hans had a dream at
the age of five that he was married to his mother, and they had their own children. His father
was fantasized to be the grandfather of their child. Ultimately, Hans' horse phobia was really
his father's fear, and the horse mouth mark was correlated with his father's mustache. This is
because Hans has developed anxiety about castration because he wants his father's mother to
say. Freud told Hans' father that Hans had Oedipus complex, meaning implicit mother-friendly
sexual feeling and desire to have father expelled or killed. Hans’s phobia was overcome when
his Oedipus complex was overcome and he grew up to become a regular individual afterwards.
Oedipus complex
The Oedipus complex is a term used by Sigmond Freud in his theory of development
psychosexual stages, and is the common term for both Oedipus and Electra. The Oedipus
complex develops during the phallic period of development (ages 3-6), in which the libido origin
is concentrated in the body’s erogenous zones. Kids throughout this stage experience an
unconscious desire for their parent of opposite gender and resentment and envy towards their
parent of the same sex. Oedipus complex arises in the young boy because he build unconscious
desires for his mother. The boy feels jealous from his father because he want to claim his
mother from him. These feelings towards mother led to get rid of father and to take the place
of him with mother. The negative feelings against the father lead to anxiety about castration,
an unreasonable belief the father will molest him as a punishment. The son associates with the
father, to deal with this anxiety. It means that the boy pursues the attitudes, traits and values
retained by his father (example, temperament, role of the gender, actions of the masculine dad,
etc.)

Electra complex
Another theory given by Sigmund Freud is known as Electra complex. This theory is used to
explain the female equivalent of the Oedipus complex. It involves a child, age between 3 and 6
years, being sexually unconsciously attracted towards her father and openly hostile to her
mother. The Electra complex for girls starts with the assumption that she was already castrated.
Despite that she faults her mother and experiences mother issues. Girls want to connect with
their mother in order to grow their super ego and sex role. Yet the intensive of girl to leave her
father as a love object to move back to her mother is much less evident than that of the boy to
reconnect with his father. According to Freud girl identifies with her mother quite strongly and
replicates her actions for fear of losing the affection of her parents. Freud called this feminine
Oedipus complex. Frued argued that feminine mentality of Oedipus was more extreme
emotionally than the complex of Oedipus, so the young girl was more severely repressed. He
believed this led women to be less confident and more submission.
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