[lit-ideas] lit-hans and the destiny of operatic maneuvers
- From: Torgeir Fjeld <torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 18:24:46 +0100 (BST)
listers,
little hans, not directly related to lit-hans, suffered from not being properly
separated from his mother (by his dad) according freud. he later went on to
become an opera producer in present-day poland, "quite well adjusted and
happy," or so says the granddad of psychoanalysis hisself.
anywho, poor little hans, who had aversions to carts pulled by a single horse
(s.c. "phobia" writ freud), while doubly pulled (by horses) carts were ok. king
sigismundo interprets this as little hans's expression of fear for single
parenting, and thence anxiety to absence of a father figure.
nevertheless, who was dr freud's source of all this? well, he saw the five year
old once, but remained in close correspondence with little hans's father.
horses symbolised hans's fear of castration. the father's absence was replaced
by the symbol of a horse. two possible readings emerge:
1) as freud hisselves writ, hans's father put hans in the perverse position,
bedded with his own mother and bereft of knowledge of his father's desire (for
his mother) and thence and wheteretoforth how babies are made. freud berated
little hans's father for this.
2) little hans proved to creatively resolve his father's minimally coercive
parenting. as lacan notes, everything freud wrote was essentially bout how to
be a father (yes, jl, OR NOT).
summarily, wasn't this all about the inadequacy the father of little hans felt
facing the challenge of bringing up a five year old boy?
post scriptum and festum: when political power shifted in the 1930s, hans
(formerly "little") was relieved from his operatic duties. and relocated across
the "pond."
Mvh / Yours,
Torgeir Fjeld
Gdansk, Poland
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