Psychodynamic Explanations To Gender

Question 1

Interactionist

Answer 1

Psychosexual stages are innate. Experience of how we overcome conflict shapes our adult personality.

Question 2

Conscious, subconscious or Unconscious?

Answer 2

Unconscious

Question 3

Key psychosexual stage

Answer 3

Phallic: obtain your gender, before this a child is essentially bisexual.

Question 4

ID

Answer 4

Pleasure principle, immediate gratification

Question 5

Ego

Answer 5

Reality principle, Mediator

Question 6

Superego

Answer 6

Morality principle, obtained after successful completion of phallic stage (off same sex parent).

Question 7

Oedipus complex

Answer 7

Boys desire their mum, see dad as competition for mum’s love. They notice that nit everyone has a penis, develop castration anxiety (fear dad chopping off their penis). They decide to give up their love for their mother and ACTIVELY identify with their father, in doing so they take on the male gender identity - the fathers superego (morals).

Question 8

Electra complex

Answer 8

Girls desire their dads