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Freud noted that the Rat Man was struggling against his mother's wishes that he marry Emily, a young woman with "particularly beautiful eyes."
Exploring Freud’s Rat Man case, this piece analyses the chain of signification that emerges in Freud’s articulation of the rat-related signifiers through which his patient’s neurosis is expressed.
The case of a patient’s obsessive thoughts inspired Sigmund Freud to share his observations in the 1909 case study Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis. 1 Referring to the man using the pseudonym ‘Rat Man’, Freud describes in depth how persistent, obsessive thoughts led him to irrational, compulsive behavior, such as cutting his own ...
However, although carrying out conspicuous indoctrination, neglecting immediate transference reactions (especially of the negative kind), and diminishing the role of women in the Rat Man's analysis, Freud was able to achieve a measure of therapeutic success by focusing on and clarifying his patient's oedipal relationship to his father.
We consider the case of the “Rat Man” an important landmark work of Sigmund Freud that helped in understanding of clinical presentation and psychoanalytic aspect of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), then termed “obsessional neurosis” by Freud.
Oct 19, 2019 · A great tool to help readers of Freud’s “Ratman” study is the well researched Freud and the Rat Man by Patrick J. Mahony. Patrick was able to compare the original process notes with the published case, make improved translations, and correct some of the chronology.
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Mar 20, 2018 · In any case Freud coined the concept years before he treated the Rat Man. 9 Bird ( Citation 1972 , p. 272) states: “In many ways the closest Freud ever came to establishing a formal analytical rationale for transference was his first attempt, in the postscript to the case of hysteria … .
