Lecture Iii.--Experiences Concerning the Psychic Life of

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Importance of emotional processes in children--Little Anna's questions--Arrival of the baby brother--Anna's embarrassment and hostility--Introversion of the child--Of the adolescent--Her pathological interest in the Messina earthquake--The meaning of her fear--Anna's theories of birth--Meaning of her questions--Her father tells her something of origin of her little brother--Her fears now subside--The unconscious meaning of the child's wish to sit up late--Anna's equivalent to the "lumpf-theory" of little Hans--The stork-theory again--Author's remarks on the sexual enlightenment of the child.