Dreaming of animals: The animal in Freud's analysis of a phobia in a five-year boy and history of an infantile neurosis

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature, Department of

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

Volume

7

Issue

3

First Page

38

Last Page

44

Publication Date

9-1-2015

Abstract

This paper examines the relationship of Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory and animals by examining two of Sigmund Freud's Famous cases studies, Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year Boy (Little Hans) and History of an Infantile Neurosis (Wolfman). Numerous critics have accused Freud of taming the possibly radical figure of the animal in dreams by containing them within the interpretive frame of the Oedipal complex. Conscripting the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, this paper attempts to theorize a more enabling and productive way to think about the relation of Freudian theory with animals.

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Keywords

Psychoanalysis; Children's dreams; Phobias; Neuroses in children

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