The construction of reality and the fantasies. Observation on 'Little Hans', W. Loch e G. Jappe

The clinical case of 'Little Hans', described by Freud, is interpreted as a psychoanalytical contribution to the ontogenesis of language and knowledge. As the two authors demonstrate, the therapeutic intervention did not have the function of a 'reconstruction' after a preceding 'destruction of language', but it served to create the conditions for experiencing the oedipal conflict (foundation of the ego). Only the identificatory participation in the way of life of the father (and of the therapist) as 'third party', who is at the same time omniscient, enables the formation of an object relationship with the mother no longer threatened by symbiotic regression.