Little Hans' real father

Into something rich and strange. Shakespeare. The Tempest. (Act 1 Sc. 2) Lacan, in his seminar of 1956-57, La relation d'objet, tells us that the phobia emerges as a consequence of a shortcoming, a deficiency on the part of the father.[1] The story of little Hans, which is in essence and form the story of a father and a son, is a god-send when it comes to trying to explore this statement of Lacan's, - and something which is sent from God has a very particular importance, as is shown to us by Freud when he eventually intervenes in this drama of filiation.…