The article discusses the phobic function as an element originating from thought and the symbolization process by presenting a reading of play in the Hans case. It resumes the history of phobia in psychoanalytic nosography and analyzes its developments within anthropology, culture, and education that marked the Freudian essays after the Hans case and repositioned the phobia as a structuring function of symbolization, beyond the nosological entity.
Keywords
Phobic function; symbolization; play