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'''Wolf Man''' was a pseudonym used for one of [[Sigmund Freud]]'s  The "Wolf Man" [[case]] was Freud's most elaborate case [[history]], containing a wealth of [[clinical]] and [[theoretical]] points. He was nicknamed the "Wolf Man" because of a striking dream which he [[recalled]] having at the age of four, and which marked the beginning of his [[neurosis]]. In it, he dreamt of several wolves staring at him, withtheir ears pricked up, paying attention to him. It was through the [[analysis]] of this [[dream]], and reconstructed [[childhood]] events, that [[Freud]] introduced the [[idea]] of the [[primal scene]], the [[scene]] of [[sexual]] intercourse between the [[parents]] thtat the [[child]] observes or infers.  It was also in this case history that he described in detail the [[concept]] of 'after-revision' or 'deferred [[action]]' (Nachträglichkeit). The [[primal]] scene is grasped and [[interpreted]] by the child some [[time]] later than his original observation of it, by after-revisin at a time when he can put it into [[words]].  The Wolf Man's primal scene, which became the nodalpoint for his subsequent neurosis, was the [[traumatic]] [[event]] of [[seeing]] his parents copulate ''a tergo''. As Freud wrote, he <blockquote>[[understood]] it at the time of the dream when he was four years old, not at the time of the observation. He received the impressions when he was one and a half; his [[understanding]] of [[them]] was deferred, but it became possible at the time of the dream owing to his [[development]], his sexual excitations and his sexual researches.<ref>{{SE}} 17 p. 38</ref>  The later activation of the [[scene]] "had the same effect as [[thought]] it were a [[recent]] [[experience]]. The effects of the scene were deferred, but meanwhile it had lost none of its freshness in the interval between the ages of one-and-a-half and four years."<ref>{{SE}} 17 p. 44</ref> (The "stamping" of the original traumatic event had not been integrated into the sbject's [[verbal]] [[system]], and was limited, in [[Lacanian]] terminology, to the [[domain]] of the [[Real]]. It re-arose in the course of his [[progress]] in his [[symbolic]] [[world]], thanks to "the advance of his [[intellectual]] development."<ref>SE 17 p. 109</ref>           [[:Category:Famous Patients|famous patients]], [[Sergei Pankejeff]].[[Category:Sigmund Freud]][[Category:People]][[Category:Freudian psychology]][[Category:Famous Patients]]
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