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The fort/da game that the nephew played, in Freud's account, is in Lacan's view a marker of the entry into the Symbolic, because Hans is using language to negotiate the idea of absence and the idea of Otherness as a category or structural possibility. The spool, according to Lacan, serves as an "objet petit a," or "objet petit autre"--an object which is a little "other," a small-o other. In throwing it away, the child recognizes that others can disappear; in pulling it back, the child recognizes that others can return. Lacan emphasizes the former, insisting that Little Hans is primarily concerned with the idea of lack or absence of the "objet petit autre."
==Analysis of little Hans==
He was a patient of Freud’s even if they just had one appointment. It allowed Freud to develop his conception of children’s sexuality:the Oedipian complex and the castration complex… The father carried out the boy’s treatment in the view of such interpretation. Hans had anxiety attacks so intense that he couldn’t go out. At the beginning he didn’t reveal he was afraid of being bitten by a white horse.
The fear came from horses’big penis and from his mother who told him once she might cut his sex, which triggered a castration complex. Castration can mean more than mutilation. The phobic object was horses.
===Little Hans: a case study by Freud===
