'Little Hans' is attracted to his mother, he resents his father and the power associated with his father. However, the boy cannot truly resent his father, without out causing more pain, because of the closeness in the quarters they reside. The ego of 'Little Hans' then made the decision to fear horses instead because it already witnessed horses hurting 'Little Hans's' friends. Fear of being eaten by their parents for one reason or another is common amongst children. 'Little Hans' needs power and recognizes his father's genitals as "power" and therefore the boy fears castration from a horse bite. Freud begins to agree, at least partially with Rank's theory of birth trauma. Life's initial trauma leads to the creation of anxiety. This initial anxiety leads to the formation of newer and bigger anxieties. Therefore, anxiety comes from birth and exists in all humans. It is around this time that Freud begins to recognize a change in his general theory. He writes: "If I had contented myself earlier with saying that after the occurrence of repression a certain amount of anxiety appeared in place of the manifestation of libido. [the] description would be correct.I can now no longer maintain this view. And, indeed, I found it impossibleto explain how a transformation [occurred]." He now begins to try to explain his new point of view by going on about further causes of symptoms. He explains that symptoms may arise when repression fails to suppress impulses, when a person tries to undo a traumatic experience, or the auto-erotic impulse is suppressed. Also, the destruction of the Oedipus Complex is a way of overcoming the fear of castration, but creates other symptoms in the fact the it the Oedipus Complex is important to the id. Freud now states that "anxiety arises directlyfrom a libidinal cathexis whose processes have been disturbed." He believes that anxiety is the result of disturbed processes in the brain. For example, a trauma...
