still a child. Freud's "Wolf Man" is particularly disturbed by images of wolves and .
physically is just getting through a gonorrheal infection. In his childhood, the patient's .
sister knew of his fear of wolves and used it to terrorize him at her whim with images of .
wolves. He was particularly frightened by images of wolves in a picture-book, walking .
upright like humans. .
His sister tormented him after these neuroses began to appear in the patient's .
childhood, when he was four years old. He also showed other kinds of anxiety and .
hysteria about animals, including bugs (which he also tortured) and horses. The patient's .
animal phobia changed at some point in his development to what Freud calls an .
obsessional neurosis. Freud stresses the scientific value and difficulty of the case in .
terms of the patient's initial apathy that gave way to more and more disclosure as he .
became more attached to the therapist in a non-independent manner. The patient's .
parents married young and his mother was sick when he was a child. He developed an .
attachment to his nanny as well as his sister, and strove to make his father proud of him.
This relationship became estranged later when his father seemed to prefer his sister to .
him. Freud points out sexual aspects of the patient's childhood involving watching his .
nanny masturbate a gardener and having his sister touch his member. His theory is that .
this put up a wall of incest to the patient's sexual developments, causing him to retreat .
to a pre-genital phase. .
Castration anxiety is also mentioned as one of the reasons for the patient's .
condition. When the patient's sister died, he showed blunted affect according to Freud. .
Freud also theorizes in the case that the patient actually wants to have sexual relations .
with his father in a passive way, but is running from this to his nanny. The case also goes .
into an in-depth description of the client's dreams.