![]() ![]() An immediate derivative of the rat story was Lanzer's crazed compulsions about reimbursing his military comrade who paid for his new pair of pince-nez, sent by post. To prevent the fulfillment of that fantasy, the Rat Man resorted to the defensive formula "But whatever you are thinking of," accompanied by a gesture of repudiation. Upon hearing the sadistic story, the Rat Man imagined that the torture was being applied simultaneously to both his ladyfriend and to his father. While on maneuvers the previous summer, he lost his pince-nez subsequently on the same day he heard a "cruel captain" describe an Asian torture in which a heated pot containing live rats is applied to the buttocks of the intended victim. ![]() During his second hour on the couch Lanzer recounted an incident that was the origin of his famous pseudonym. Lanzer had previously consulted Wagner-Jauregg, Vienna's most famous psychiatrist, Freud was moved to make the case a psychoanalytic showpiece, much as he was later to do with the "Wolf Man," who had previously seen the leading psychiatrist in all Europe, Emil Kraepelin. The importance which Freud attributed to the case of the "Rat Man" is revealed by these facts: During its duration, he gave four "progress reports" to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society he made it the subject of his lecture at the First International Congress of Psychoanalysis in Salzburg and it was the only case for which he retained day-to-day process notes. As a result, procrastination affected both his personal and professional life, including the efforts to finish his legal education, to work, and to marry. Lanzer also complained about compulsive impulses, such as cutting his own throat with a razor he also described his personal prohibitions, which sometimes concerned quite trivial matters. In the recent past Lanzer's obsessional ideation involved lethal injury dealt to his girlfriend or even to his dead father. The patient's presenting symptoms were florid: Obsessions lasting from childhood had intensified most dramatically in the previous four years. Ernst Lanzer, alias the "Rat Man," consulted Freud on October 1, 1907, and began an analysis that allegedly lasted a little more than eleven months and ended in a complete cure. ![]() "NOTES UPON A CASE OF OBSESSIONAL NEUROSIS" (RAT MAN)ĭr. ![]()
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