Little Hans in the history of child analysis

This article places the Little Hans case in the history of child analysis by considering Anna Freud's reflections on the case at various moments in that history and the way in which she took the case as a touchstone while she developed child analysis in directions the case did not point: beyond the infantile neurosis. Her direction is contrasted briefly with Melanie Klein's and the relative lack of attention to adolescent analysis in Freud's work and in Klein's is noted. In a brief biographical sketch of Little Hans in his adolescence, constructed from interview material in the Sigmund Freud Archive, the question is taken up of how an infantile neurosis, even if more or less cured, can suffuse an adolescent character consolidation process.