Psychodynamic Explanation Of Gender Development Freuds Psycho Analytic Theory, I Did This Complex Electric Complex Identification And Internalisation Flashcards
What happens after passing through the oral and anal psychosexual stages of development
Females and males experience different complex and during the phallic stage to 8 around five. If the child is successfully resolve this crisis they are quiet the gender behaviour typical of this sex
What is the odepius complex
Boys wish to be the sole object of the mothers attention and experience immature sexual desire for her. They see their father as a rival for their mothers attention but also fear the father and feel guilty about that side to get rid of him. The fear the father is experience as a fear of castration if it is repressed and the unconscious. Boys repress the desires to for their mother and enter a A period of sexual latency where they find a substitute another level of a girlfriend or partner. The identification and internalisation with th their fathers general and adopt stereotypically masculine behaviour
What is the electra complex
Electra complex is in girls where they are listening attracted to them others but are aware of the lack of penis this the girls believe that they’ve been castrated and experience penis Andy. The girls immature sexual desires then focus on the father. To resolve the crisis the girls convert that desires for a penis into that for a baby. The girl that identifies and a televises with the mother to perform stereotypical feminine behaviours. Girls are pesticides for their father and enter period of sexual latency where they substitute their father in the form of a boyfriend/partner
What is research evidence for the Oedipus complex
Little hands this is where five-year-olds Hans was phobic of horses which Freud argued was a repressed and displaced fear of his father. Freud also claimed he expressed sexual desire towards his mother and wished his father dead and feared castration.
What are the problems with Freuds study
It is criticisable because it is only one person and for may have interpretedhands behaviour simply for proof of his theory
A case study he claimed that 32 manic-depressive 22 was suffering from unresolved Oedipal or Elettrica problems with researcher bias and subjectivity
What are the implications of Freud study
Feminists say it was seen to be inherently sexist and females are less moral than men. Post Freudians usually argue that penis V is symbolic. These theories also imply that children raised in a single parent household would fail to acquire The identity in a normal way gender identity of girls raised by a lesbian couple this was very similar to those raised by heterosexual parents
