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Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy (Little Hans)
35 concepts · 37 definitions
- aggressive instinct1
- amnesia1
- animal1
- castration complex1
- child1
- child analysis1
- childhood1
- childhood phobia1
- condemnation1
- consciousness1
- cruelty1
- curiosity1
- disease1
- education1
- ego1
- exposure1
- fear of the father1
- homosexuality1
- infantile sexuality1
- innocence1
- insight1
- knowledge1
- neurosis1
- phobia3
- physician1
- primacy of the phallus1
- psychoanalysis1
- repetition1
- repression1
- return of the repressed1
- riddle of the sphinx1
- sibling1
- suggestion1
- treatment1
- unconscious1
The Phobia (n.) is the price of freedom from anxiety: the mind binds liberated anxiety by erecting precautions, inhibitions and prohibitions, which constitute the disease.
Phobia (n.) are syndromes that may belong to various neuroses, not an independent pathological process.
A Phobia (n.) relates only secondarily to its object, which is why phobias are at once so diffuse and so strictly conditioned.
The Unconscious (n.) behaves like an unlaid ghost in analysis: whatever is not yet understood comes back, and cannot rest until the spell is broken.
Amnesia (n.) can swallow an analysis itself: the cured child forgot both the events and their analysis, as a dream analysed at night is gone by morning.
Condemnation (n.) replaces repression in analysis: the automatic, excessive process of repression gives way to temperate, purposeful control by the highest agencies of the mind.
Disease (n.) is a purely practical concept in neurosis, a matter of summation: no sharp line divides neurotic from normal, and many pass from health to illness, fewer the other way.
Knowledge (n.) is patchwork: each step forward in knowing leaves an unsolved residue behind.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is a therapeutic measure rather than an impartial scientific inquiry: its point is not to prove but to change something.
Suggestion (n.) has become a catchword prized for its economy of thought: no one knows or cares what it is, so long as everything awkward in psychology can be labelled with it.
The Aggressive instinct (n.) as Adler proposed it wrongly promotes into a separate instinct the pressing, movement-initiating character that belongs to every instinct.
An Animal (n.) owes much of its importance in myth to the openness with which it displays its sexual functions to the curious child.