FREUD AND THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX

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WHAT WAS THE RESEARCH METHOD USED BY FREUD?	LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY - CARRIED OUT IN CORRESPONDENCE WITH AND INTERVIEWS WITH WITH HANS' FATHER
WHAT WAS THE AIM OF FREUD'S STUDY?	TO INVESTIGATE THE CAUSES OF A PHOBIA OF A HORSE IN A FIVE-YEAR-OLD BOY
GIVE TWO POSSIBLE CAUSES OF HANS' CASTRATION ANXIETY	1) WHEN HE TOOK AN INTEREST IN HIS 'WIDDLER', HIS MOTHER THREATENED TO CUT IT OFF. 2) HANS' LIKED TO CLIMB INTO HIS PARENTS BED WHEN HIS FATHER WAS AT WORK, AND FEARED THAT HIS FATHER WOULD CASTRATE HIM IF HE FOUND OUT ABOUT HIS SEXUAL DESIRE FOR HIS MOTHER.
WHY DID HANS HAVE A PHOBIA OF WHITE HORSES?	HANS HAD REPRESSED HIS SEXUAL DESIRE FOR HIS MOTHER INTO HIS UNCONSCIOUS MIND. HIS MIND DISPLACED HIS FEAR OF HIS FATHER CASTRATING HIM ONTO A WHITE HORSE WHO RESEMBLED HIS FATHER - BLACK BLINKERS WERE HIS GLASSES, BLACK MARKINGS AROUND MOUTH WERE MOUSTACHE AND THE HORSE HAD A BIG PENIS AND SO DID HIS FATHER.
WHAT WAS THE FIRST DREAM HANS HAD WHICH FREUD CLAIMED AS HIM RESOLVING THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX?	HANS HAD A DREAM WHERE HE HAD MARRIED HIS MOTHER AND WAS PLAYING WITH HIS CHILDREN. HE HAD PROMOTED HIS FATHER TO GRANDFATHER.

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