The Re-reading Of Rat Man: Freud's Study Of Obsessive Neurosis

Neurosis is one of three clinical fields, which are neurosis, dream and parapraxes, of Freud' classical psychoanalysis. Obsessive neurosis is one of three kinds of neurosis, which are obsessive neurosis, hysteria and phobic neurosis, of Freud's study. The study on obsessive neurosis can be found in ten texts, which belong to the earlier and middle periods of Freud's study. Rat Man is a most important text among these ones.The author tries to outline Freud's study of obsessive neurosis through the re-reading of Rat Man. In Chapter One, the author re-appears Rat Man's pre-history of life, history of life and the appearance of symptom of "Rat Punishment"; in Chapter Two, the author reconstructs Freud's interpretation of two symptoms of Rat Man; in Chapter Three, the author gives a brief account of Freud's study on obsessive neurosis of three periods, which are the period before Rat Man, the same period with Rat Man and the period after Rat Man; at last, the author thinks that there are two main lines and one dimension among these texts of Freud's study on obsessive neurosis.In Chapter Four, the author, firstly, points that there are some parts of Rat Man, which are not fully interpreted by Freud; secondly, the author attempt to interpret those parts in the basis of the introduction of the concept "Generation Complex" and a new co-ordination of Generation Complex and Oedipus Complex; finally, theauthor suggests that psychoanalyst should consider the clinical case of psychoanalysis in the co-ordination and points that some questions rise subsequently.