Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy

A work in which a child’s mental structures are analyzed layer by layer; hypotheses about children’s sexuality arise; and the work of psychoanalysis is illustrated clearly.

According to Freud’s theory, a child spends the first few years of childhood, unconsciously opening up to all possible kinds of sexual experience. How, then, does their sexuality develop further? What stages of development does it go through in this long and extremely difficult process? What prohibitions and guidance from parents in this very delicate sphere may prove useful—or, on the contrary, lead to the most depressing consequences?