Adler NeoFreudians Is this Legit Horney Jung The
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Adler Neo-Freudians Is this Legit? Horney Jung The Psychoanalytic Perspective (Mod 44) Personality Tests Freud Unconscious & Personality Projective Tests We are Structure Defense here Mechanisms Development TAT Rorschach Inkblot
How Does Our Personality Develop? • Freud believed our personality developed in our childhood (from unresolved conflicts) • We all have a libido. • Our libido travels to different areas of our body throughout our development (Erogenous zones) • Together Freud called these stages our Psychosexual Stages of Development.
Fixation • A lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage. • Where conflicts were unresolved.
1. Oral Stage • Seek pleasure through out mouths. • Babies put everything in their mouths (0 -2). • People fixated in this stage tend to overeat or smoke. Can also be gullible or cynical.
2. Anal Stage • Develops during toilet training (2 -4). • Libido is focused on controlling waste and expelling waste. • A person fixated may become overly controlling (retentive) or out of control/destructive (expulsive). – Controlling ones life and independence.
3. Phallic Stage • Children first recognize their gender (4 -7). • Pleasure zone is the genitals. • Causes conflict in families with the Oedipus & Electra Complexes & Castration Anxiety • Fixation cause later problems in relationships (Egotism or low selfesteem) Click the baby to see real Oedipus Complex
Oedipus Complex • Phase One – Boy has a libidinal bond with the mother (breast feeding and mother as primary caregiver) – Parallel to this, the boy begins to identify with his father, the figure parallel to him in terms of biological sex. (Identification with the father's role as "lover" of mother. ) – In this phase, these two relationships exist side-by-side and in relative harmony.
Oedipus Complex • Phase 2 – – – – Boy’s feelings Intensify Sees the father as an obstacle and a rival who he desires to get rid of or to kill. Worries the father will castrate him. Boy is never 100% hostile. Boy hopefully turns his psychic energy into full-on identification with the father. “Can’t beat’em, join’em. ” Identification: children incorporate their parent’s values into their developing superegos Boy is masculinized, eventually seeks his own sexual partner
Castration Anxiety • This fear or threat becomes real upon the observation of the female genitalia, which appear to be "castrated” • Sources of the castration complex: • Punishment for affectionate feelings for Mother • Punishment for bed-wetting
The Electra Complex • But what about girls? • During the phallic stage the daughter becomes attached to her father and more hostile towards her mother. • Believes that mom is responsible for her not having a penis. • This is due mostly to the idea that the girl is "envious" of her father's penis thus the term "penis-envy". • This leads to resentment towards her mother, who the girl believes caused her castration.
Oedipus in Pop Culture • The episode "Committed" (5. 21) of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, shows a mother-son incest. • In Back to the Future (1985), Marty's mother Lorraine falls in love with him instead of Marty's father. • "The End" by The Doors, in which singer Jim Morrison sings: "Father/Yes son? /I want to kill you/Mother, I want to. . .
4. Latency Stage • Libido is hidden (711). • Cooties stage. • No fixations
5. Genital Stage • Libido is focused on their genitals (12 death). • Maturation of sexual interests • Fixations=fetishes, sexual identity problems, etc.
