" Rat Man " was the nickname given by Sigmund Freud to a patient whose "case history" was published as Bemerkungen über einen Fall von Zwangsneurose ["Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis"] (1909). This was the second of six case histories that Freud published and the first in which he claimed that the patient had been cured by psychoanalysis.

Oct 19, 2019 · A great tool to help readers of Freud’s “Ratman” study is the well researched Freud and the Rat Man by Patrick J. Mahony. Patrick was able to compare the original process notes with the published case, make improved translations, and correct some of the chronology.

Case study of Sigmund Freud's client Rat Man (Ernst Lanzer), whose obsessive thoughts helped Freud to develop his theories.

This article discusses case of Mr. Ernst Lanzer known as the “Rat Man” in the history of psychoanalysis. He was diagnosed as a case of obsessive-compulsive disorder by Sigmund Freud known as obsessional neurosis that time.

Apr 19, 2018 · The name was applied to a patient of Freud’s, a 30-year-old lawyer whose obsessional fear of rats was traced to repressed death wishes toward his father generated by oedipal conflicts.

Nov 22, 2024 · He did not elaborate any further how Ibsen's play became a leading clue to insight into his rat deliria. He supposed that the roots of the Rat Man's great obsessive fear were derived from his unconscious phantasies of introjecting his father's penis per anum.

Mar 25, 2025 · The nickname used in the literature of psychoanalysis to refer to an early patient of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939). The Rat Man was tormented by fantasies of rats gnawing at his father's anus and that of a woman to whom he was attracted.

Apr 28, 2013 · Described by Freud in "Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis", the rat man was the name applied to his patient, a 30 year old whose obsession with fear of rats was traced to death wishes (repressed) generated by underlying Oedipal conflict.

We will focus on one of the key cases analyzed by Freud, the one he himself named the "Rat Man" (fictional name for patient Ernst Lanzer) and analyzed as an "obsessive neurosis". As in the Dora case, in this clinical case Freud intends to describe the prototype of obsessive neurosis in which no elem …

The Rat Man was a pseudonym given by Sigmund Freud to his patient Ernst Lanzer (1878 —1914), to protect his anonymity when his case study was published. The case study was published in 1909 in German. Freud saw the Ratman for about a year, and considered the treatment a success.