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Ch. 8 Post-Freudian Theory Flashcards

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post-Freudian theory

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(Erikson) theory of personality that extended Freud’s developmental stages into old

  • each age has specific psychosocial struggle that contributes to formation of personality
  • life-cycle approach to personality
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Erikson

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came up w/ post-Freudian theory

  • applied diff. perspectives/societies for human development
  • researched Sioux Nation and Yurok Nation
  • combined methods of psychoanalysis + historical research to study personality
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emphasis of post-Freudian theory

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(1) social relationships + historical influences
(2) expansion of psychosexual to psychosocial
(3) identity

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Erikson important background info

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  • never really knew his biological father (lead to many identity crises)
  • did not feel accepted into Jew or Gentile community (blond hair, blue eyes)
  • overall life marked by many identity crises
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ego

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a person’s ability to unify experiences and actions in an adaptive manner

  • weak as a child
  • strengthens by adolescence
  • 3 different ego aspects
  • largely shaped by culture
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ego aspects

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(1) body ego
(2) ego ideal
(3) ego identity

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body ego

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how we see physical self as different from other people

  • experiences w/ our body
  • may be satisfied or dissatisfied
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ego ideal

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typical ego from Freud

how we compare to ideal self
- satisfaction w/ our entire personal identity

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ego identity

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how we see ourselves in diff. roles throughout life

- shaped by multiplicity of conflicts and events (past, present, and anticipated)

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epigenetic principle

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ego grows as our organs do

- one component grows out of another in its proper time and sequence

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stages of psychosocial development (8)

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infancy
early childhood
play-age
school age (sexual latency)
adolescence (social latency)
young adulthood
adulthood
old age
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basic points about stage approach

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  • must resolve previous stage before moving to next
  • every stage has interaction of opposites
  • conflict produces ego quality or basic strength
  • too little strength @ one stage leads to core psychopathology at later stage
  • stages biological in nature
  • earlier stages does not lead to later personality disorder
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interaction of opposite

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a conflict btwn a syntonic element + dystonic element

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syntonic

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harmonious

(ie) during infancy = basic trust

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dystonic

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disruptive

(ie) during infancy = basic mistrust

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basic strength

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the ego quality that emerges from the conflict btwn antithetical elements of the stages of development

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core pathology

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a psychosocial disorder @ any stage of the 8 stages of development that results from too little basic strength

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indent crisis

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a turning point, a crucial period of increased vulnerability and heighted potential

  • susceptible to major modifications in identity (+/-)
  • not a catastrophic event
  • opportunity for either adaptive or maladaptive adjustment
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infancy

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stage of development

  • oral-sensory mode
  • modes of incorporation: receiving + accepting
  • depends on parents’ response to child
  • strength: hope

basic trust vs. basic mistrust

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oral-sensory mode

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(infant) infant’s first psychosexual mode of adapting

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hope

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basic strength/virtue of infancy

- learn to expect that future distresses will meet w/ satisfactory outcomes

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early childhood

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stage of development

  • anal-urethral-muscular mode
  • strength: will

autonomy vs. shame/doubt

**desire to DO things

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anal-urethral-muscular mode

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(early childhood) young child’s psychosexual mode of adapting

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will

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basic strength of early childhood

  • beginning of freewill and willpower
  • inadequate will learns to compulsion
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play-age

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stage of development

  • genital-locomotor mode (phallic)
  • strength: purpose
  • matches up to Freud’s genital stage (Oedipus complex)

initiative vs. guilt

**doing the RIGHT thing

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genital-locomotor mode

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(play-age) preschool child’s psychosexual mode of adapting

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purpose

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basic strength of early childhood

  • manufacture elaborate fantasies of what is like to be grown up, omnipotent, etc
  • may produce guilt
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school age

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(sexual latency) stage of development

  • latency
  • strength: competence

industry vs. inferiority

**doing things WELL

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latency

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(school age) psychosexual mode of the school-age child

  • period of little sexual development
  • develop competence or incompetence
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industry

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(school age) industriousness, a willingness to remain busy w/ something and finish a job

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inferiority

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(school age) feelings of too much guilt and too little purpose

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adolescence

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(social latency) stage of development

  • must gain sense of ego identity
  • puberty triggers expectations of adult future roles
  • experiment w/ diff. roles
  • strength: fidelity

identity vs. identity/role confusion

**from adolescence on, personality development involves identity crisis (turning point)

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puberty

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(adolescence) genital maturation

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young adulthood

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stage of development

  • genitalia / genitality
  • strength: love

intimacy vs. isolation

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genitality

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period of life beginning w/ puberty and continuing through adulthood
- marked by full sexual identity

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adulthood

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stage of development

  • procreativity
  • strength: care

generativity vs. stagnation

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procreativity

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the drive to have children and to care for them

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generativity

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the generation of new beings as well as new products new ideas
- concern w/ establishing + guiding the next generation

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stagnation

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stagnated generativity due to too absorbed in themselves, too self-indulgent

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care

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(adulthood) a widening commitment to take care of the persons, products, and ideas one has learned to care for

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old age

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stage of development

  • generalized sensuality
  • look back on life
  • strength: wisdom

integrity vs. despair

**did I live the life I want to live?

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Sioux Nation

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oral fixation led to more generous

- mothers were very giving with nursing, Sioux = very generous nation

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