Freud

Structure of the mind

• Conscious mind - Thoughts and feeling 
• Pre-conscious mind - Past knowledge and memories
• Unconcious Mind - Thoughs and feeling we are not directly aware of

Structure of personality

• Id - Pleasure principal, present from birth, demands immediate gratification
• Ego - Reality principal, present from 18 months, maintains balance between Id and superego
• Superego - Morality principle, present from 5 years old, socially appropriate behaviour 

Defence mechanisms 

Made by the ego to protect us from the conflict between the ego and superego, in unconsious mind, we are often unaware of them.

• Regresssion - reverting back to childlike behaviour
• Displacement - taking impluses out on less threating people

Baths

• Watched is sister hanna having a bath and wanted his mother to let her go so she would drown
• He then developed a phobia of baths
• Freud said this was a displaced fear that his mother might also let him go in the bath

Horses

• The black bit and bridles on horse looked like Little Hans father
• Freud says little Hans phobia of horses was a displaced phobia of his father

Aim

• The aim of the study was to report findings of treatment of a 5 year old boy for his phobia of white horses and find evidence for Freud's psychsexual stages of development and the oedipus complex.

The Particpant

• A boy called Little Hans from Vienna, Austria 
• Age 3-5

Research method and Design

• Longitudial case study 
• Data was gathered by Little Hans father, Max Graf who was a supporter of Freud and a member of the psychoanalytic society
• Max Graf wrote down Little Hans fantasies, fears and phobias and sent them to Freud via letter

Giraffe dream

• There was big giraffe and a crumpled giraffe, the big one called out beause little hans took the crumpled giraffe away, stopped calling out when Hans sat on top of the crumpled giraffe
• Symbolic of the morning exchage, father (big giraffe) didn't want Little Hans to stay (calling out) stopped when his mother let him stay (sat on crumpled giraffe)

Plumber Fantasy one

• Little hans was in the bath, plumber came and unscrewed it then took a big borer and stuck it into my stomach
• Freud said the bath was symbolic of his mother womb and the plumber is Hans father with his big borer (penis) that put Little Hans in his mothers womb

Plumber Fantasy two

• Plumber took away his behind and widdler and replaced it with a bigger one
• Freud said this was hans identifying with his father, exiting oedipus complex

Supports the phallic stage

• Little Hans had an intrest in widdlers (phallic stage) and his problem came with the confilic between the love for his mother and fright of his father

Supports the oedipus complex

• Glasses and moustach looked like a horse, Littles Hans' displaced fear of his father supports the oedipus complex

Problems

• One major probelm as that a simpler explaination was that he had seen a horse fall and collapse in the street and now assosiated that with all horses