Little Hands Had Such a Fear of Being Bitten by a Horse

question 93

Multiple Choice

Little Hands had such a fear of being bitten by a horse that he would not leave the house.Freud took the case and

• A)explained that the boy was associating horses to his earlier frightening experience that involved a horse.
• B)dismissed the experience with the horse as causal,and considered the fear to have hidden causes.
• C)explained that the boy's decision to avoid horses and stay indoors was his young ego's attempt at suppressing threatening id material that he didn't like.
• D)explained that avoiding horses was a conscious attempt at repressing the horse incident to the unconscious.
• E)attempted to help the boy identify his own beliefs and expectations about encountering another horse.