psychodynamic explaination Flashcards

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strength of Freud’s theory

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  1. 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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  1. 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
  2. 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)
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