Influence
- Jacques Lacan built his early structuralist theory around the Rat Man case, in particular the polarity of father-rich wife/son-poor wife as an intergenerational force creating the individual neurosis.
- The Rat Man himself cited Nietzsche to Freud to the effect that " 'I did this,' says my Memory.'I cannot have done this,' says my Pride, and remains inexorable. In the end - Memory yields". Freud would retell the saying more than once, and it would be taken up by later therapists such as Fritz Perls.
- Freud's late note upon the Rat Man's acute sense of smell would later be developed into his theory of the process of civilisation and organic repression.
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