Pre-Phobic Anxiety

‘My dear Professor, I am sending you a little more about Hans - but this time, I am sorry to say, material for a case history.’[1] The boy woke up one morning in tears; asked why he was crying, he said to his mother ‘When I was asleep I thought you were gone and I had no Mummy to coax with.’[2] It is therefore ‘An anxiety dream.’[3] In 1909 the publication of the case-history ‘caused a great stir and even greater indignation’.…