psychodynamic explaination Flashcards
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strength of Freud’s theory
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- oedipus complex
- for boys normal development depends on being raised by at least one male parent
- Rekers and Morey (1990) rated the gender identity of 49 boys aged 3-11 based on interviews with their families
- 75% of those rated to be gender developed had no biological or substitute father living with them
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limitation of freud theory
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- female development
- inadequate account of women’s development
- Jung produces that psychoanalytic theory
- freud admitted that women were a mystery to him and his notion of penis envy had been criticised of reflecting the androcentric victorian era where men help so much power
- Horney (1942) argued that men experience womb envy - pseudoscientific
- lacks scientific credibility
- many of his concepts are untestable as they are inconcoes
- according to Popper (1959) this makes Freud theory pseudoscientific as his key ideas cannot be falsified (proved wrong through scientific testing)
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pre phallic stage
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- phallic stage is where gender development occurs (3-6 years)
- prior to the phallic stage children have no concept of gender identity and have no understanding of male or female so do not characterise themselves in that way
- in the phallic stage the focus of pleasure switches to the genital where the child experiences the oedipus complex or the electra complex
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oedipus complex
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- boys develop incestous feelings toward thier mothers
- they harbour a jealous and murderous hatred for their father who stands their the way of the of possessing his mother
- a boy fears castration so to resolve conflict gives up love for the mother and identifies with the mother
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electra complex
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- freud (1990) suggest that in the phallic stage girls experiences penis envy seeing themselves and their mother as being in competition for their fathers love
- mother is blamed for the daughter having no penis
- over time girls accept that they will never have a penis and substitute penis envy with the desire to have children identify with the mother
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identification and internalisation
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- both sexes identify with the same gender parent as their means of resolving their complexes
- boys adapt to the attitudes and values of their father
- girls adopt those of their mother
- children take on board the gender identity of the same gender parent (internationalisation)