Personality - 4 Flashcards
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How does development take place
Erogenous zone becomes sensitive to erotic stimulation, libido is directed to the zone, to move to next stage libido must be freed from stage it is in, for libido to be freed it involves conflicts at each stage
What are the 5 stages of psychosexual development
Oral Anal Phallic Latency Genital
What can insufficient or excessive gratification at a stage lead to
Fixation in that stage and development of trait characteristics of that stage
Describe the oral stage
Developed birth the first year of life
Pleasure is obtained through oral activities
Sucking = oral eroticism
Biting = oral sadism (agressive drive )
What conflicts are there at the oral stage
Conflict centres around weaning
More difficult the child is to be weaned the more likely to be fixated at this stage
What are some fixations of the oral stage
Smoking drinking
What is the frustrated oral character
Exaggerates desires for oral activities smoking eating drinking
Pessimistic greedy and aggressive, sarcastic
What is the over indulged oral character
Optimistic, clinging , wants to be the centre of attention, dependant interpersonal relationships
Describe the anal stage
2-3 years when bowels become under voluntary control
Pleasure from contraction and relaxation of muscles that control bowels
What are the erotic and sadistic s of the anal stage and the conflict at this stage
Pleasure from expulsion of faeces - anal sadistic
Pleasure from retaining faeces - anal erotic phase
Toilet training
What are the two types of anal traits
Anal retentive - held in and resisted as child, as adult excessive use of self-control, perfectionism, clean and tidy, upset by mess
Anal expulsive- if as child let it out, as adult, careless, messy, wasteful, disorderly
Describe the phallic stage
4-5 years
Libido moves to phallic region
Child pleasure from self - stimulation
Conflict over masturbation and wanting to posses the opposite sex parent
What is the Oedipus complex
Characterised by Boys attachment to his mother
Resentful to father and hostile to him
Fears father will retaliate which results in castration anxiety
What is castration anxiety
Fear of getting your ballllls cut off
What is the Electra complex
Characterised by a girls attachment to her father
Girls may have penis envy
Blame mother for anatomical deficiency
Resent mother
What is the phallic stage
Resolved by 5 to 6 years
Repression and identification with the same sex parent
Fear of castrations and mothers love
What is the Phallic character
Reckless Self assured Vain Excessively proud Fear of intimacy
What happens during the latency period
Our libido is dormant and we focus on schooling and samesex friends
Describe the genital stage
Libido is focused on the genitals but rather a than being autoerotic it is heterosexual
What is the task at the genital stage
Sec with opposite sex person, heterosexual sex, genital fixations
What the primary aim of freud investigating little Hans
5 year old little Hans had a phobia of horses, friends primary aim was to treat the phobia and explore what factors created this phobia
How did little Hans fear develope
Aye 3 developed an active interest in his penis and those of other people.
At 5 he is afraid a horse will bite him in the street, this is somehow connected with having been frightened by a large penis
What did freud see the horse as
A symbol of hans father, hans said he was especially after of white horses with black round the mouth. Hans father interpreted this as a reference to his moustache and spectacles
How freud interpret there was a fear of castration
Freud interpreted the fear of horses was symbolic of his father, and feared his father would castrate him as a punishment for his desires towards his mother.
Saw hans phobia as expression of the Oedipus complex
