Hans aged three and three-quarters: ''''Daddy, have you got a widdler too?'''' Father: ''''Yes, of course.'''' Hans: ''''But I''''ve never seen it when you were undressing.'''' Another time he was looking on
THE STANDARD EDITION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS COMPLETE THE OF SIGMUND FREUD * VOLUME X I ·-'" , - ·-=- r 1/ Sigmund Freud in 1909 THE STANDARD EDITION OF THE COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF · - SIGMUND FREUD Translated from the Gennan under tke G,eneral Editorship of JAMES STRACHEY In Collaboration•witk ANNA FREUD Assisted by ALIX STRACHEY and ALAN TYSON VOLUME X (1909) Two Case Histories ('LITTLE HANS' AND THE 'RAT MAN') LONDON THE HO GAR TH PRESS AND THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS ~PUBLISHED BY THE HOGARTH PRESS LTD LONDON * CLARKE IRWIN & CO LTD TORONTO This Edition first Published in I955 Reprinted I956, I957, I962, I964, I968, I97I, I97:J, I975, I978 and I98I ISBN O 7012 0067 l?ur;ess BF ,-=,-3 • F , 5"'3 !1 All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of The Hogarth Press Ltd TRANSLATION AND EDITORIAL MATTER @ THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS AND ANGELA RICHARDS 1955 PRINTED AND BOUND IN GREAT BRITAIN BY BUTLER AND TANNER LTD., FROME CONTENTS VOLUME TEN ANALYSIS OF A PHOBIA IN A FIVE-YEAR-OLD BOY (1909) rl "' \) l "" page Editor's Note I Introduction II Case History and Analysis III Discussion Postscript (1922) 22 IOI 148 NOTES UPON A CASE OF OBSESSIONAL NEUROSIS (1909) page 153 Editor's Note Introduction 155 I Extracts from the Case History 158 (A) The Beginning of the Treatment 159 (B) Infantile Sexuality 160 (a) The Great Obsessive Fear 165 (n) Initiation into the Nature of the Treatment 173 (E) Some Obsessional Ideas and their Explanation 186 (F) The Precipitating Cause of the Illness 195 (o) The Father Complex and the Solution of the Rat Idea 200 II Theoretical 221 (A) Some General Characteristics of Obsessional Structures 221 (B) Some Psychological Peculiarities of Obsessional Neurotics: their Attitude towards Reality, Superstition and Death 229 (a) The Instinctual Life of Obsessional Neurotics, and the Origins of Compulsion and Doubt 237 Addendum: Original Record of the Case 251 V vi CONTENTS APPENDIX: Some Writings by Freud Dealing with Anxiety page and Phobias in Children and with Obsessional Neurosis 319 j BIBLIOGRAPHY AND AUTHOR INDEX 321 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 327 GENERAL INDEX 329 ,r ILLUSTRATIONS Sigmund Freud in 1909 (Aet 53) A Page of Freud's Original Record of the 'Rat Man' Case (Original measures 16 X IO inches) Frontispiece Facing page 259 r ANALYSIS OF A PHOBIA IN A FIVE-YEAR-OLD BOY ( 1909) l •'