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Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (the Rat Man) is published as a 1909 case

In 1909 Freud published the Rat Man case. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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In 1909 Freud published the Rat Man case. The instrument is that case-paper. Disguise is not treated here as a complete anonymisation. Sigmund Freud's documented role is: He published a disguised case. The patient did not typeset the paper. Medium confidence on the completeness of disguise.

Context

Sharing the clinic hour with him is required. Clark lectures are a neighbouring 1909 instrument, not this paper. The setting of Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (the Rat Man) is published as a 1909 case is the public file around 1909-04-01. Driver personal-data-protection is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Why it matters

Worsening path from Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (the Rat Man) is published as a 1909 case on 1909-04-01. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Shared responsibility is part of Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (the Rat Man) is published as a 1909 case. Naming Sigmund Freud does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1909-04-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Sigmund Freud

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He published a disguised case. The patient did not typeset the paper. Medium confidence on the completeness of disguise.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactNotes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (the Rat Man) is published as a 1909 case
    2. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 April 1909 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.PEP-Web — Freud, S. (1909) Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis, Standard Edition 10Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP-Web) · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Sigmund FreudInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: PEP-Web — Freud, S. (1909) Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis, Standard Edition 10, cases neighbourhood at https://pep-web.org/search/document/SE.010.0151A (opens in a new tab) (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP-Web)). Independent locator: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Freud, case histories at https://iep.utm.edu/freud/ (opens in a new tab) (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: PEP-Web — Freud, S. (1909) Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis, Standard Edition 10, cases neighbourhood (https://pep-web.org/search/document/SE.010.0151A (opens in a new tab); Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP-Web)). Independent carrier: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Freud, case histories (https://iep.utm.edu/freud/ (opens in a new tab); Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Established: a sourced public record of Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (the Rat Man) is published as a 1909 case under 1909-04-01 for Sigmund Freud. Established: a sourced public record of Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (the Rat Man) is published as a 1909 case under 1909-04-01.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. One case publication. Wolf Man is a different paper. Mixed effects of Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (the Rat Man) is published as a 1909 case are separate paths.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorSigmund Freud
  2. contributed toFactNotes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (the Rat Man) is published as a 1909 case
  3. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (the Rat Man) is published as a 1909 case. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/fr-rat-man-1909

https://factrail.ai/facts/fr-rat-man-1909

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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