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KMID : 0385320080190020173
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2008 Volume.19 No. 2 p.173 ~ p.179
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Little Hans and the Invisible Man
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Lee Byung-Wook
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Abstract
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Little Hans, who was analyzed by his father Max Graf, grew to become a normal adult by the name of Herbert Graf. He became a successful famous opera producer and director of New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Despite his fame and success, he depicted himself as an invisible man. His statement is very suggestive of identity confusion and neurotic conflict. Little Hans began to identify with his father just after his parents’ divorce, and he therefore became an opera director. Herbert Graf thoroughly concealed his private life, with the exception of his public activities. Nobody knows the true nature of his adult mind, but we can speculate that his neurotic conflicts included identity confusion based on his life course. He seems to be an invisible man or phantom in opera because his visible false self was very successful in masking the invisible true self. However, his distorted ego was discontented with the discordance of his selfsplitting. He then seemed to escape from the cloudy identity to the invisible state. Even though seemed to be quite mature, his immature part little Hans, remained in his adult mind. The reason that why he concealed himself behind the stage of opera or the real world seemed to be that he had an unresolved fear of castration and guilt because nobody can castrate an invisible being.
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KEYWORD
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Little hans, Invisible man, Identity
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