widdler

7 As regards Hans's mother's "widdler," it is worthwhile remembering that in

Notes, "Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations", Frankenstein's Dream 2003

In what is known as the “Little Hans” case 1909, Freud discusses a boy who fears animals and apparently fears that he will lose his “widdler.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

In what is known as the “Little Hans” case 1909, Freud discusses a boy who fears animals and apparently fears that he will lose his “widdler.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

The threat of castration provokes anxiety only from the moment his belief in the phallic mother is called into question, for only then would it "no longer be incredible that they could take his own widdler away, and, as it were, make him into a woman" (SE 10: 36).

Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003

Hans's cure, in turn, consists to a significant extent in embracing his father's and Freud's interpretation of "woman" for Hans's mother, we should remember, insists that she really does have a "widdler"

Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003

At this stage of things, when his mother playfully threatens to "cut off" his "widdler" (his penis), he calmly replies that in that case he will have to widdle "with my bottom" (SE

Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003