ACTIVITY

1. Recall a recent incident in your life when you had to make decision. Narrate the
situation below. Indicate what the decision was about, the factors that were involved
and how you arrived at your decision.

During the enrolment for college, I’m planning to take the course that I really wanted

which is Bachelor of secondary education, I thought that was all I had to think about but during

the enrolment for college, they asked me if what major will I take, I’m surprised because what I

know is that in the third year we will then be choose our major, so I stop for a bit to think, then I

come up with two choices, Filipino and English major. I’m really confused during that time, I

wanted to be an English major but I’m not good at it, I am not fluent in English language, but

there are many job opportunities for English major, not only in the field of teaching ,because

they can also be a call center agent, secretary and so on. On the other hand, I also want to be a

Filipino major because even though it will be difficult, at least I am comfortable with the

language. In the end I took the English major because it is more practical for me and though I’m

not good at it, I still wanted to learn it no matter what I will never give up.
Analysis
What factors influenced you in making decision? Which of the following did you
consider most in making your decision: what will make you feel satisfied, what is
most beneficial or practical, or what you believed was the most moral thing to do?
Elaborate on your answer.
I consider if what is most beneficial or practical and if what will be the result of
my decision. Which is during that time English is the best option for me because when I
have graduated I’m sure I can get a job not only in teaching field.
REACTION PAPER ABOUT THE CASE OF HANS

Little Hans was a 5-year-old boy with a phobia of horses. Like all clinical case studies, the
primary aim was to treat the phobia. However, Freud's therapeutic input in this case was
minimal, and a secondary aim was to explore what factors might have led to the phobia in the
first place, and what factors led to its remission. From around three years of age, little Hans
showed an interest in ‘widdlers’, both his own penis and those of other males, including animals.
His mother threatens to cut off his widdler unless he stops playing with it. Hans’s fear of horses
worsened, and he was reluctant to go out in case he met a horse. Freud linked this fear to the
horse’s large penis. The phobia improved, relating only to horses with black harnesses over their
noses. Hans’s father suggested this symbolised his moustache. Freud’s interpretation linked
Hans’s fear to the Oedipus complex, the horses (with black harnesses and big penises)
unconsciously representing his fear of his father. Freud suggested Hans resolved this conflict as
he fantasised himself with a big penis and married to his mother. This allowed Hans to overcome
his castration anxiety and identify with his father.

I found this case study interesting, but on my own perception, I’m totally disagree with his
conclusion or with his theory, it’s hard to believe into something that you never experienced or
felt, Freud said that Oedipus complex is universal which is not true because if that’s the case why
it didn’t happen to me or to my friends (I asked some of my friends), Oedipus complex may exist
but not how common it is. And the case study was only limited to only one personal (Hans)
that’s why it is not possible to generalize the results to the wider population.
RESEARCH CONNECTION
Freud’s Theory

Problem
Little Hans was a 5-year-old boy with a
phobia of horses. Like all clinical case Methodology
studies, the primary aim was to treat the
phobia.However, Freud's therapeutic The data was gethered through
input in this case was minimal, and a interviews and observation. Data
secondary aim was to explore what interpretatuion
factors might have led to the phobia in the
first place, and what factors led to its
remission.
  McLeod, S. A. (2008, October 24). Little hans - freud (1909). Simply Psychology.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/little-hans.html

Findings
Freud saw Hans' phobia as an Conclusion
expression of the Oedipus complex. After many letters were exchanged, Freud
Horses, particularly horses with black concluded that the boy was afraid that his
harnesses, symbolized his father. father would castrate him for desiring his
Horses were particularly suitable mother. Freud interpreted that the horses
father-symbols because of their large in the phobia were symbolic of the father,
penises. and that Hans feared that the horse
The fear began as an Oedipal conflict (father) would bite (castrate) him as
was developing regarding Hans being punishment for the incestuous desires
allowed in his parents' bed (his father towards his mother.
objected to Hans getting into bed with
them).

How are the findings of this research useful to teachers? This study helps the teacher to
understand more their students.
SYNAPSE STRENGHENERS
Describe Freud’s family background. Describe the composition of his family. What
do you think was it like for Freud growing up in this family?
The family of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psychoanalysis, lived in Austria and
Germany until the nineteen thirties before emigrating to England, Canada and the United States.
Several of Freud's descendants have become widely recognized in different fields.
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was born to Jewish Galician parents in the Moravian town of
Freiberg, in the then Austrian Empire (now Příbor in the Czech Republic).] He was the eldest
child of Jacob Freud (1815–1896), a wool merchant, and his third wife Amalia
Nathansohn (1835–1930). Jacob Freud was born in Tysmenitz, Galicia (now Tysmenytsia,
in Ukraine), the eldest child of Schlomo and Peppi (Pessel), née Hoffmann, Freud. His two
brothers Abae (c1815-c1885) and Josef (1825-1897) had difficulties that concerned the family,
the former because of his mentally incapacitated children, the latter because his business dealings
came under criminal investigation Jacob Freud had two surviving children from his first
marriage to Sally Kanner (1829–1852 Emanuel (1833–1914) and Philipp (1836–1911). acob's
second marriage (1852–1855) to Rebecca (family of origin uncertain) was childless. Amalia
Freud was the daughter of Jacob Nathansohn (1805–1865) and Sara Wilenz
from Brody, Galicia (now part of Ukraine). They later moved to Vienna. Her brother Hermann
(1822–1895), who was a stockbroker in Odessa, was Freud's favourite uncle. She had three other
brothers: Nathan (b. c.1825), Adolf (c.1830–1862) and Julius (c.1837–1858). Jacob and Amalia
Freud had eight children: Sigmund (birth name Sigismund Schlomo; 6 May 1856 – 23
September 1939)Julius (October 1857 – 15 April 1858) Anna (31 December 1858 – 11 March
1955) Regina Debora (nickname Rosa; 21 March 1860 – 1942) Marie (nickname Mitzi; 22
March 1861 – 1942) Esther Adolfine (nickname Dolfi; 23 July 1862 – 1943) Pauline Regine
(nickname Pauli; 3 May 1864 – 1942) ,and Alexander Gotthold Ephraim (19 April 1866 – 23
April 1943. Anna married Ely Bernays (1860–1921), the elder brother of Sigmund's
wife Martha. There were four daughters: Judith (1885–1977), Lucy (1886–1980), Hella (1893–
1994), Martha (1894–1979) and one son, Edward (1891–1995). In 1892 the family moved to the
United States where Edward Bernays became a major influence in modern public relations. He
married Doris E. Fleischman (1891–1980) who became known as a prominent feminist activist.
Their daughters are Doris Bernays Held (b. 1929), a psychotherapist who married Richard
Held (1922-2016) a neuroscientist, and Anne Bernays (b. 1930) a writer and editor, as was her
husband, Justin Kaplan (1925–2014). Rosa (Regina Deborah Graf-Freud) married a lawyer,
Heinrich Graf (1852–1908). Their son Hermann (1897–1917) was killed in the First World War;
their daughter, Cäcilie (1899–1922), committed suicide after an unhappy love affair. Rosa died
in the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942.Mitzi (Marie Freud) married her cousin Moritz
Freud (1857–1922). There were three daughters: Margarethe (1887–1981), Lily (1888–1970),
Martha (1892–1930) and one son, Theodor (1904–1923) who died in a drowning
accident. Martha, who was known as Tom, worked as a children's book illustrator. After the
suicide of her husband, Jakob Seidmann, a journalist, she took her own life. Their daughter,
Angela, was sent to live with relatives in Haifa. Lily became an actress and in 1917 married the
actor Arnold Marlé. They subsequently adopted Angela. Mitzi died in
the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942. Dolfi (Esther Adolfine Freud) did not marry and
remained in the family home to care for her parents. She died in Theresienstadt concentration
camp in 1943.
Pauli (Pauline Regine Winternitz-Freud) married Valentine Winternitz (1859–1900) and
immigrated to the United States where their daughter Rose Beatrice (1896–1969) was born. After
the death of her husband she and her daughter returned to Europe. [9] Rose (known as Rosi)
married Ernst Waldinger, a poet, in 1923. They moved to New York City after the war where a
daughter, Ruth, was born.[10] Pauli died in the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942.Alexander
Freud married Sophie Sabine Schreiber (1878–1970). Their son, Harry (1909–1968), immigrated
to the United States where he married Leli Margaret Horn. Both Freud's half-brothers emigrated
to Manchester, England, shortly before the rest of the Freud family moved to Vienna in 1860.
Emanuel Freud married Maria Milow (1836–1923) in Freiberg where their first two children
were born: John (b. 1856, disappeared pre-1919), the "inseparable playmate" of Freud's early
childhood;[12] and Pauline (1855–1944). Their other children were born in Manchester: Matilda
(1862–1868), Harriet (1865–1868), Bertha (1866–1940), Henrietta (1866 infant death) and
Soloman (1870–1945, known as Sam). None of the children married. Philipp Freud married
Bloomah Frankel (b. 1845 Birmingham, d.1925 Manchester). There were two children: Pauline
(1873–1951) who married Fred Hartwig (1881–1958); and Morris (b. 1875 Manchester,
d.1938 Port Elizabeth, South Africa). The death of the childless Pauline in 1951 marked the end
of the Manchester Freuds
REFLECTION
In our lives there are different stages that we must experience, and each stage there
are also tasks that should be done in order for us to be develop.
From this module I learned that there are different stages of psychosexual development, which
according to Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory development these include oral stage, Anal stage,
Phallic stage, latency stage and genital stage. Likewise, he also enlightened me about personality
components and adjustments.