Little Arpad
andi, 'Rooster Man'is the name given to a case history of a child with a rooster identification and
fetish by the psychoanalyst
Sandor Ferenczi.
Observation
In his article of 1913 in the ''International Journal of Psycho-Analysis'', “A Little Chant'cleer”, Ferenczi reported on the case of a child, attacked by a rooster, who subsequently took on the role of a rooster wherever possible, in an early example of
identification with the aggressor. He either imitated directly, or spoke only about, roosters; and played solely with toy roosters.
Freud's use
Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts in ...
used the example of Little Arpad, along with that of
Little Hans
Herbert Graf (10 April 1903 – 5 April 1973) was an Austrian-American opera producer. Born in Vienna in 1903, he was the son of Max Graf (1873–1958), and Olga Hönig. His father was an Austrian author, critic, musicologist and member of Sig ...
, to support his theory of the father as
totem
A totem (from oj, ᑑᑌᒼ, italics=no or ''doodem'') is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe, such as in the Anishinaabe clan system.
While ''the wo ...
in his 1913 book ''
Totem and Taboo''. He would later be criticised by
Peter Gay
Peter Joachim Gay (né Fröhlich; June 20, 1923 – May 12, 2015) was a German-American historian, educator, and author. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Sch ...
for neglecting the at least equally strong evidence concerning Arpad's view of his mother: “One should put my mother into a pot and cook her, then there would be a preserved mother and I could eat her”.
Choice of songs
Arpad's choice of songs to sing was also determined by his rooster-fetish – supporting Freud's theory as expressed in his 1901 work ''
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
''Psychopathology of Everyday Life'' (german: Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens) is a 1901 work by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Based on Freud's researches into slips and parapraxes from 1897 onwards, it became perhaps the ...
''.
A Child's Favorite Song Recall
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See also
References
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Further reading
*S. Ferenczi, ''Contributions to Psychoanalysis'' (1916)
External links
Animal Totems and Taboos
History of psychiatry
Freudian psychology