The aim of the article is to analyze two cases of phobias in children: Juanito (Freud, 1909) and Sandy (Shnurmann, 1949) according to the clinical method. Triggering factor differ. Conceptually in the first case it is the accentuated lack of the paternal function and, in the second case, maternal deprivation. The symptom structure also differs: it is metaphorical, in the first case, and metonymic in the second. In both cases, it concerns the substitution of the lacking function.
Children; psychopathology; Lacan; phobia