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(1974). Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 29:265-276

Some Unusual Anal Fantasies of a Young Child

Anne Hayman

EVER SINCE WE LEARNED ABOUT LITTLE HANS AND HIS lumpfen, THE wealth of fantasy young children have about their anal products and activities has been one of the best known and uncontested pieces of knowledge psychoanalysis has contributed. Hans revealed the unconscious equation feces = baby, with childbirth understood as defecation, while the unconscious identification of feces with penis, with defecation seen as castration, was described by Freud (1918) in the Wolf-Man. Both of these fantasies have long been an inherent part of knowledge informing the psychoanalysis of adults, and both have appeared directly in the reports of analyses of children of both sexes. Berta Bornstein (1935) reported that Lisa, aged 2½, was constipated when she was occupied with problems of sex, and objected to the removal of her stool, as if she "hoped to make a penis" of it. Both Editha Sterba (1949) and Selma Fraiberg (1950) present case reports documenting the young child's equation of fe

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