Repudiate: to refuse to accept.
Objective Anxiety: results from a real threat in the physical world to one's well-being, as when a ferocious-looking dog appears from around the corner.
Agoraphobia: fear of extreme or irrational crowded spaces, or enclosed public places.
2) Two major questions about psychoanalysis the chapter raises (either something that confuses you or something that you think is crucial in understanding the concepts addressed).
In the reading Freud gives various examples of young children who fantasize with animals protecting them. However, in reality the animals represent the children's father who do not protect the children. Therefore, a question this chapter raises is if the child's denial reasonable and healthy for the development of the ego?
Something I was confused about was how the objective anxiety that Hans had connected between his father and the horses?
3) At least two quotations in the reading that address those questions (either answers them or raises them in the first place).
"In these tales for children the anxiety relating to the father has been displaced in the same way as in the animal fantasies"(79). This quote made me think that it is reasonable for the kids to do this for example, if a father is abusive the child having this fantasy relates the father as an animal to better make sense of the father's savage actions, but helps the animal use its strength for protection. This gives the ego relief.
However, this quote shows how the fantasies can be bad for the ego especially in adulthood. "This meachnism belongs to a normal phase in the development of the infantile ego, but, if it recurs in later life, it indicates an advanced stage of mental disease"(80).
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