Little Hans: A Freudian Case Study on the Oedipus Complex

This video goes over one of Freud's case studies - that of Little Hans. This case study is quite a good example of how Freud used his psychoanalytic theory to try and understand the causes of trauma/anxiety induced behaviours.

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[tracesprite]

No wonder poor little Hans was so traumatized. The carriage accident was horrendous but probably his parents never talked it over with him and tried to help him to deal with it. Instead of kindness, he was threatened with castration by his mother!!! He was getting very little kindness or understanding from his mother so the arrival of his baby sister probably filled him with despair. How useless of Freud to think that the child's fear of horses was really a fear of his father. The accident he had seen was quite enough to explain his fear of horses. In addition Hans may have been afraid of his father because fathers were frightening authoritarians in those days. Hans' father may have been irritated with Hans wanting to be with his mother because boys were supposed to be cold, self-sufficient individuals who didn't show their emotions. Hans probably just wanted a bit of kindness from his mother who doesn't sound like a very caring person. The Oedipus theory really got in the way of Hans getting some kindly, reassuring parenting. Thank goodness, these days help for troubled children is more practical and useful.

[emmawalker]

I’m currently studying Freud in psychology. This is a well explained simplified telling of the little hans study. Thank you!

[Tyreniom]

I just finished the video I am forever scarred

[venrakkhita]

everything... love it... just don't personally need the music baubling away - its distracting

[MrSniperdude]

Fun FREUDIAN Fact: He was an avid recreational coke user. He was so taken with the drug that he wrote of the euphoria it caused, which in turn stirred sexual arousal towards his mistress

[liviudan]

Fun fact about Freud: He was a huge coke user and on one occasion gave his niece a little baggy as a Christmas gift and told her to have a "white Christmas"

[hanzino]

to everyone who struggled to watch this video, just be glad your name isn't Hans.

[dynasticdiva]

This is some serious Alabama type shit

[joycekoch]

My son had what seemed like an Oedipus complex but it wasen't because at 5 he wanted to sleep with me
but because the monsters came out of his closet at night and scared him. He knew when my husband was out of
town he could sleep safe in my bed but when my husband came back from a business trip he couldn't
as my husband and I after being away from each other for many days naturally wanted to have a great
deal of intimacy. Thus when my husband came home from a trip he would push the door close and say "Leave,
I'm sleeping with Mommy". Rather than this being sexual he explained the monsters did not follow him to my room.
His sister who was 4 years older than agreed to allow him to sleep with her and he felt safe there until when he was about
8 he outgrew all fear of monsters.

[leojablonski]

Excellent . You've moved the clouds for the sun. Keeper commin

[Azerbaijani.Turkmen]

Why are the comments so hostiletowards Freud?? It's not like he said it's a good thing to have fantasies about your parents😅

[MaureenKo]

My sister majored in psychology when in college. She decided to psychoanalyze every damned event in her life. Worse, she applied every theory she learned to others around her and boy did she let us know about it. She lived her entire life knowing other people had many twisted problems but thank God, she didn’t. She lived a miserable, angry existence blaming every around her for her unfortunate life, because why? She knew better than everybody else, of course. All of you deep thinkers, maybe Freud just had an unnatural attraction to his own mother and had a multitude of dingaling problems, deciding to dump it on all of you.

[erikablu]

to all the people in the comments who don’t believe in the oedpus complex, i hate to say this online but i have it . it’s real frauid is correct and shouldn’t be shamed for putting a name to it. I don’t get how people who don’t have an attraction to their other gendered parent, just say it isn’t a thing. like yes it is a thing it’s a very common thing as a girl our daddies are our first love and we forever search for him if that is interrupted.

it’s sort of like saying schizophrenia it doesn’t exist and that the discovery of that was wrong just because you don’t have schizophrenia or that schizophrenia makes you uncomfortable

[MaureenKo]

Exactly why parents shouldn’t psychoanalyze their own children. Or Drs shouldn’t psychoanalyze from a distance.

[mariog]

I’m surprised to how hostile the comments are towards Freud. The criticism isn’t very fair and it seems like it is done by those who either have not read him or only want to use an ad hominem. Much of our language today is totally based on Freudian psychoanalysis. Freuds Oedipal complex is not about incest. It’s about how parents can make their kids so naive that they hide in fantasies and have a phobia of what is real. And of course Freud thought such that life was highly sexual and so you sexualized your protectors. I personally don’t think life is very sexual and I’m a Jungian so I see the Oedipal complex as mythological. But Freud is no slouch!

[TFpokerface]

Struggling to understand accent a times o-O

[nali]

do i even have to write this down in my exam paper 😭my god so twisted