ad the omnipotent ability to bring direct harm to his father. Freud explains the specificity of this fear later in the paper.
             As the therapy developed, Freud and his patient finally came to the central obsessive fear, which gave the case its name. The patient describes the fear taking the form of a torture he had heard about in the army: namely that a person would have a bowl of rats strapped onto the buttocks, eventually leading the rats to burrow up the anus. In this section of the paper, Freud discusses cutting through certain resistances. His methods helped the patient allow for the thought that this torture was happening to his father and that he was its cause. Within this particular session, the Rat Man provides a slip that gives
             Freud more pertinent information saying that this torture happened to "both" people. Upon inquiry, Freud found that this over-determined fear extended to the lady the Rat Man admired as well. The onset of this fear opened a view
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