so today's video might seem a little bit strange but most things concerning Freud have a certain strangeness about them especially in today's time this is the case study of little hunts the named little hunts is a pseudonym for Herbert Graf who was the son of a Viennese music critic named Max breath max Graf was a family friend of Freud and a follower of series little honks was born in 1903 in Vienna and unusually was not treated directly by Freud but rather by his father who would correspond with Freud through a series of letters detailing his son's behavior and quoting their conversations only on one occasion did Freud all the session with boy in person little Hans had been affected by a traumatic event which had occurred when he was four years old in which he had witnessed an accident a horse carrying a heavily loaded clock collapsed in the street after the event the boy's parents no two said he had begun to develop the fear of horses particularly those carrying a heavy load all those with black around the eyes or wearing blinkers it was believed that the phobia was linked to the sight lodged in italia of animals and the fear of horses later little Hans trying to avoid leaving his home in case he encountered one of animals and grafts led to Freud he described a preoccupation with the male genitals which led his wife to threaten his son with calling a doctor to cost rate him if it did not end max Graf relate to Freud numerous conversations with a son which he felt might be of significance to the case on one occasion no Hans described two drops entering the room that he was in he imagined on the drafts began to crumble and took it away from a second Roth who called out to him additionally sibling jealousy became a problem for the plants when he was three and a half years old his mother gave birth to a baby sister the attention of his mother that his newborn sister deprived him of lead him to feeling some jealousy towards her and he indicated a wish that she would drown in the bath little Hans himself also developed a fear of such misfortune occurring to him aberthol his sister Liv Liv will hunts to question the process of conception and childbirth unwilling to explain this to the son his parents provided hunks with the traditional story of the stork delivering babies and boxes by 1909 Freud's ideas about the Oedipus complex were well established and Freud interpreted this case in line with the theory as mentioned Freud and actually worked directly with lungs but instead work through correspondence with Hunter's father again Anthes father was familiar with Freud's theories and wrote to him when he first suspected that Hans had become a case that Freud might be interested in Freud suggested possible lines of questioning which the body could try with us and the father tried them and reported Freud had taken place the first reports of hunts are when he was three years old when he developed an active interest in his penis no she called his wiggler and also the wiggler's of other people for example on one occasion he asked mummy have you got a wiggler - there aren't this time the main theme of his fantasies and dreams were wig lids and widdling when Hanks was almost five hunters father wrote to Freud explaining his concerns about hunts Freud wrote a summary of his treatment of little hunts in 1909 in the paper entitled analysis of of obeah in a five-year-old boy since the family of little hunts lived opposite the busy kochi and that meant hence wasn't happy about leaving the house because he saw many horses as soon as he went out the door when he was first asked about his fear and said that he was frightened that the horses would fall down and make a noise with their feet he was most frightened of horses which were drawing heavily laden carts and in fact as mentioned he had seen a horse collapse and die in the street one time when he was out with his nurse miss excellent was a horse-drawn bus carrying many passengers and when the horse collapsed and had been frightened by the sound of its hooves clattering against the cobbles of the road he had also suffered attacks of a more generalized anxiety and his anxieties and phobias continued as he was afraid to go outside of the house because of this phobia horses when honks was taken to see Freud he was asked about the horses he had a phobia and so - they didn't like horses with black books around the mouth for I believe that the horse was a symbol for his father and the black boots were a massage after the interview the father recorded an exchange with honks the boy said daddy don't trot away from me over the next few weeks senses phobia gradually began to improve and said that he was especially afraid of white horses with the black round mouths who were also wearing blinkers hands his father interpreted this as a reference to his moustache and spectacles after many letters were exchanged or he concluded that the boy was afraid that his father would cost straighten for desiring his mother classical Oedipus complex Ford interpreted at the horses in the phobia voice Impala comes father and then hunts fear that the horse ie his father would bikes ie castrate him as punishment cause incestuous desire swords smother the end of hunters phobia of horses was accompanied by two significant fantasies which he told to his father in the first hunt had several imaginary children when asked who their mother was and replied why mummy of course and to his father year they granddaddy in the second thanks II which occurred the next day and imagined that a plumber had come first to remove his bottom and his whittler and then gave him the number one of each but both were larger Freud soul hunters phobia as an expression of the Oedipus complex horses particularly horses with black harnesses symbolized his father horses were particularly suitable for the symbols because of their large penises according to Freud the fear began as an oedipal conflict was developing regarding hunts being allowed in parents bed honks told his father of a dream fantasy which his father summarized as follows in the night there was a big giraffe in the room and a crumpled one and the big one caught out because I took the crumpled one away from it then it stopped calling out and I sat down on top of the crumpled one Freud his father interpreted the dream thanks E as being a reworking of the morning exchanges in the parental bed Hanson droid gets into his parents bed in the morning when his father offer an objective the big drop calling up because he had taken the crumpled roof mother away both Freud and father believed the long neck of the giraffe was a symbol for the lodge adult penis however and some soul rejected this idea Freud saw the Oedipus complex resolved as hands fantasized himself with a big penis like his father's and married to his mother or the father present in the role of grandfather instead recover from his phobia of his father and foreign suggestion assured him that he had no intention of cutting off his penis Freud was attempting to demonstrate that little hunters fear of horses was related to his heed of this complex Freud thought that during the phallic stage which occurs approximately between 3 & 6 years old a boy developed an intense sexual love for his mother because of this he sees his father as rival and once dear rid of him the father however is far bigger and more powerful than the young boy and so the child develops a fear seeing him as a rival and his father will cost straighten because it is impossible to live with continual castration threatening society provided by this conflict the young boy develops a mechanism for coping with it using a defense mechanism known as identification or the aggressor he stresses all the way that he has similar tests father adopting his father's attitudes mannerisms and actions feeling that if his father sees him as a similar you will not feel hostile towards him so there's some criticism with the interpretation of the case for instance the case study of little hunts does appear to provide support or forex theory of the Oedipus complex however they are difficulty through this type of evidence and his father who provided Freud with most of this data was already familiar with Oedipus complex and interpreted the case and lattimer's it was safe or possible that he supplied hunts of clues that led to his fantasies of marriage to his mother and his new large whittler of course even if hunts did have a fully-fledged heat of his complex the shows at the Olympus complex exists but not our common abyss remember that Freud believed it to be universal the problem of trade studies is that they lack population validity because they often base on one person there's not possible to generalize the results so while a population at the age of 19 the not-so-little hunts appeared at Freud's consulting room having read his case history and confirmed that he had suffered no troubles during adolescence in a newest foot in a wall he could not remember the discussions with his father and described how when he read his case history if came to him as something unknown so that is the case of little hunts and Freud if you enjoyed this video give it a like if you launched it in more videos like this subscribe to the channel thanks for watching