Hans is 5 years old and has a fear of horses. His father consults Freud about the situation. Freud met Hans once. His father constantly takes notes of Hans’s experiences and conveys them to Freud. It was as if Hans was going to present Freud with proof of the infantile sexuality chapter of his “3 Essays on Sexuality”.
Hans was very interested in his own penis. This even caused him to ask and observe if other people had a penis. Freud recognized Hans’ relationship between horses and his father. Hans did this through “glasses and mustache”. Freud used the Oedipus theory to understand Hans. Hans had a strong urge to fully belong to his mother’s love and began to see his father as a rival, wanting his father to leave the house or even die. The suppression of Hans’s aggressive impulses towards his father reinforced his castration anxiety and forced him to create a phobic object that could be “compromised” through mechanisms of “relocation” and “externalization”. This object also became horses. For Freud, horses represented his father and his fear that he might bite him. Freud interpreted this as Hans’ fear that his father would castrate him as punishment for his incestuous desire for his mother. While this struggle continues. “Giraffe fantasy” comes to the fore. Hans realizes that his father is much stronger and physically bigger than him and begins to fear that his father will see Hans as a rival and try to castrate him. Freud talks to Hans even though he is a younger child, and this causes his symptoms to subside. Along with Hans’ “Parenting Fantasy”, “Plumber Fantasy” has developments that will please Freud. This was the fantasy showing the dissolution of the Oedipus complex.
