The purpose of this paper is to research into Freud"s 〈Wolf-Man〉 treatment history from the perspective of storytelling humanities therapy. It tries also to find out the therapeutic relationship between story and discourse in narratives.
The narratives have a certain healing power. It is the storytelling therapy that makes use of the healing power of the narrative in the way of humanities therapy and narratology. Narratives are closely connected with psychoanalysis. A psychoanalyst listens to the narratives from his client through a free association and provides his/her therapeutic narratives for the client.
Freud treated Sergei Pankejeff whom he called “Wolf-Man”. He listened to the stories from Sergei"s reality and the other stories: the intercourse story of his parents he had seen in 18-months-old, the wolf story he had dreamed in 4-years-old, another wolf story he had heard from his grandfather, and the other wolf stories he had learned from 〈Red Riding-Hood〉 and 〈A Wolf and Seven Little Goats〉. After that, he analysed the client"s childhood zoophobia and obsession.
Narrative consists of the two essential ingredients of story and discourse. In the point of the relationship between story and discourse, story plays a role as an abstract original and is expressed into a narrative by factors of narrative such as character, time, space, tone or style of writing/speaking. Focusing on story in this view, Freud analysed basically 〈Wolf-Man〉 in psychoanalysis treatment. He analysed a wolf story Sergei had dreamed by comparing with the other wolf stories which had contributed to his zoophobia, and then tried to reconstruct the stories. In this process, he especially analysed the effect of intercourse of his parents he had seen in 18-months-old and the results to a wolf story he had dreamed. And by this, he tried to explain his client’s zoophobia and OCD(obsessive compulsive disorder).
It is not clear, whether the intercourse scene he saw was a reality or just an illusion derived from the intercourse scene of dogs. Freud couldn"t confidently answer the question. If the memory of the ‘Urszene’ was an illusion, the story couldn"t play a role as the original of narrative. In this case, the story would be generated by a patient"s narrative discourse. Through this, we understand that a story is not only expressed to narratives by the narrative discourse, but also generated by the narrative discourse.