Bob's early childhood was filled with phobic concerns and anxieties. He was constantly afraid of werewolves and goblins. He often had dreams in which werewolves and goblins of various types would attack him. When his father came home at night, he used to park the car in a garage and walk to the house along a dark, narrow sidewalk. After dinner it was Bob's job to empty the garbage. To do this he had to carry it out along this same dark sidewalk. He was constantly terrified that he would be attacked and killed by werewolves. This was transparently a displacement of his fear of his aggressive and feared father. Moreover, on one occasion, Bob was accosted on the bus by an older man, a derelict. Badly frightened by this experience, he was able to tell the school principal about it in his panic but was afraid to tell his parents—particularly out of fear of his father. These fears stayed with him over the years—on several occasions he reported nightmares of being attacked by werewolves. The similarity to Freud's famous case of the "Wolf-Man" springs readily to mind. In that case, as well, the homosexual longing for the father and the fear of castration were felt by Freud to play a central role in the generation of the child's anxiety. In Bob's case, his fears of his father—generated undoubtedly at an Oedipal level—were displaced into fearful imaginings and dreams of werewolves and into a fear of "dirty old men" who would accost him, presumably for homosexual purposes. The fears reflected Bob's inner concerns about his own passivity and vulnerability. They also mirrored the inner world of primitive and destructive objects that haunted his dreams and were projected into dark corners and alleyways. 鲍勃的童年早期充满了恐惧和焦虑。他总是害怕狼人和妖精。他经常梦见狼人和各种各样的妖精攻击他。当他父亲晚上回家时，他常常把车停在车库里，然后沿着黑暗狭窄的人行道走回家。晚饭后倒垃圾是鲍勃的工作。为了做到这一点，他不得不沿着这条漆黑的人行道走。他总是害怕自己会被狼人袭击和杀死。这显然是他对他那咄咄逼人、令人生畏的父亲的恐惧的一种置换。此外，有一次，鲍勃在公共汽车上被一个年长的流浪汉搭讪。他被这段经历吓坏了，在慌乱中他把这件事告诉了校长，但却不敢告诉他的父母——尤其是害怕他的父亲。这些恐惧多年来一直伴随着他——有几次他说自己做了被狼人袭击的噩梦。这与弗洛伊德著名的“狼人”案例很相似。在那个案例中下，同样的，弗洛伊德认为对父亲的同性恋渴望和对阉割的恐惧在孩子焦虑的产生中起着核心作用。在鲍勃的案例中，他对父亲的恐惧——毫无疑问是产生于俄狄浦斯阶段——被转移到对狼人的恐惧想象和梦中，以及对可能出于同性恋目的而向他搭讪的“肮脏的老男人”的恐惧中。这些恐惧反映了鲍勃内心对自己的被动和脆弱的担忧。它们也反映了他的内心世界的原始和破坏性的客体，经常在他的梦中出没，投射到黑暗的角落和小巷。