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Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy (Little Hans)

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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.

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Phobia (n.) are ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠syndromes that may belong to various neuroses, not an independent pathological process.

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A Phobia (n.) relates ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only secondarily to its object, which is why phobias are at once so diffuse and so strictly conditioned.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Knowledge (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠patchwork: each step forward in knowing leaves an unsolved residue behind.

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Psychoanalysis (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a therapeutic measure rather than an impartial scientific inquiry: its point is not to prove but to change something.

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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.

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The Aggressive instinct (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Adler proposed it wrongly promotes into a separate instinct the pressing, movement-initiating character that belongs to every instinct.

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An Animal (n.) owes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠much of its importance in myth to the openness with which it displays its sexual functions to the curious child.