psychodynamic

Question 1

what does it mean by psychodynamic?

Answer 1

of how unconscious drives shape behaviour, feelings and personality and has been applied to gender development

Question 2

freuds psychoanlaytic theory

Answer 2

• gendered behaviour devlops due to unconscious thought processes
• indviduals sexuality develops during the 5 psychosexual stages
• gender development occurs when they resolve the 3rd stage = phallic = 5 years old

Question 3

oedipus complex

Answer 3

• boys have sexual feeling for mother = father is a threat
• concers father will find our = castration anxiety
• boy decides to make father an ally and identifying with him

Question 4

electra complex

Answer 4

• competion with mom for fathers love
• girls identify with mother taking on female gender
• replaces penis envy with a desire for a baby

Question 5

ididentification

Answer 5

• identification = accepted by same sex parent
• imitate gender roles of same sex parent
• child has resolved the oedipus/electra complex = internalisation

Question 6

ao3

Answer 6

• little hans
• ctimatises/criticies same gender, single parent families = questions their ability = socially sensitive
• cant test the oedipus complex
• case studies = disadvatgae
• lacks temporal validity = early 20th cent = nucleur families but now much wider variety of family structures

Question 7

meta analysis on father absent families

Answer 7

• boys over 6 without fathers showed more masculine behaviours than with fathers
• there was no significant difference in gender development in lesbian and hetrosexual households
• freud = needs to be a father figure is needed for typical gender identity