[Oedipus Complex]

In his attitude towards his father and mother Hans confirms in the most concrete and uncompromising manner what I have said in my Interpretation of Dreams and in my Three Essays with  regard to the sexual relations of a child to his parents. Hans really was a little Oedipus who wanted to have his father 'out of the way', to get rid of him, so that he might be alone with his beautiful mother and sleep  with her. This wish had originated during his summer holidays, when the alternating presence and absence of his father had drawn Hans's attention to the condition upon which depended the intimacy with his mother which  he longed for. At that time the form taken by the wish had been merely that his father should 'go away'; and at a later stage it became possible for his fear of being bitten by a white horse to attach itself directly on  to this form of the wish, owing to a chance impression which he received at the moment of some one else's departure. But subsequently (probably not until they had moved back to Vienna, where his father's absences were  no longer to be reckoned on) the wish had taken the form that his father should be permanently away - that he should be 'dead'. The fear which sprang from   this death-wish against his father, and which may  thus be said to have had a normal motive, formed the chief obstacle to the analysis until it was removed during the conversation in my consulting-room.(1)

Notes:
1. It is quite certain that Hans's two  associations, 'raspberry syrup' and 'a gun for shooting people dead with'  must have had more than one set of determinants. They probably had just as much to do with his hatred of his father as with his  constipation complex. His father, who himself guessed the latter connection, also suggested that 'raspberry syrup' might be related to 'blood'.

(From "Analysis of a Phobya in a Five-Years-Old Boy".)