Can those of us who dwell in 21st-century metropolises learn anything from Freuds famous child patient Hans? Hans develops a phobia of horses and the street. Freud diagnoses a deviance in sexual development. Lacan detects a reluctance to enter into the symbolic order. Flix Guattari instead celebrates Hanss phobia as a pragmatic political escape from an Oedipalization which serves capitalism by forming deterritorialized workers who are also adaptable consumers. For Guattari, Hans exemplifies the axiomatic of capital. This talk rereads the story of Hans as an early chapter in the genealogy of flexible labor.