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Analysis Of The Ratmans Infantile Sexuality

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Through free association this regression brought Freud’s analysis back to the Ratmans infantile sexuality and the anal stage. The Ratman was exposed to sexual events at an early age. His premature sexual activity leads to his desire to see women naked. Freud believed that his Superego took over and he started to experience guilt ‘an uncanny feeling, as though something must happen if I thought such things, and as though I must do all sorts of things to prevent it ’. Freud enquired to what that might happen. He responds ‘that my father might die’ () This scopophilic instinct lead to conflict and repression of his desire. At the age of three he bit a nurse (rat like) and his father punished him for this with a beating. The Ratman shouts hostile

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