Little Arpad

Little Arpad' [Bandi, 'Rooster Man'] is the name given to a case history of a child with a chicken 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 chicken, who subsequently took on the role of a chicken wherever possible,[1] in an early example of identification with the aggressor.[2] He either imitated directly, or spoke only about, chickens; and played solely with toy chickens.[3]

Freud's use

Freud used the example of Little Arpad, along with that of Little Hans, to support his theory of the father as totem in his 1913 book Totem and Taboo. He would later be criticised by Peter Gay 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”.[4]

Choice of songs

Arpad's choice of songs to sing was also determined by his chicken-fetish – supporting Freud's theory as expressed in his 1901 work The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.[5]

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See also

References
  1. R. Lockwood, Cruelty to Animal and Interpersonal Violence (1998) p. 8
  2. Otto Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (1946) p. 481 and p. 612
  3. A. Tridon, Psychoanalysis and Behaviour (2013 [1921]) p. 69-73
  4. Quoted in P. Gay, Freud (1989) p. 335
  5. A Child's Favorite Song Recall

Further reading
  • S. Ferenczi, Contributions to Psychoanalysis (1916)
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