Freud's Little Oedipus: Hans as Exception To the Oedipal Rule

Author:

Ahbel-Rappe Karin1

Affiliation:

1. Michigan Psychoanalytic Council., 304½ South State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104,

Abstract

Freud's “The Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy” is regarded by Freud and by analytic readers and commentators as a prototype of his conception of the oedipus complex. A literary methodology is used to show that the interpretation of the oedipus complex at work in Freud's text in fact differs from Freud's standard view of it. While studying the paper as text, not as case report, may obscure or distort some clinical matters, it is valuable in that it makes legible a sort of theoretical unconscious in the text. In contrast to Freud's typically tragic view of the oedipus complex (in the tradition of ancient Greek tragedy), the Hans study evokes a comic vision (in the tradition of Greek New Comedy). This comic vision allows Hans a happy imaginative ending to the oedipal dilemma, challenges certain epistemic pretensions, and emphasizes the oedipus complex as a set of abiding existential questions. Given the deep link between Freud”s oedipus concept and a tragic view of human life, this departure in the Hans paper is a fascinating anomaly.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Clinical Psychology,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

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