Theories Flashcards
Fraud theory of psychosexual development
- all humans go through a similar sequence of significant emotionally events in their early lives
-Emphasizes the different stages, each of which builds upon achievement of the stages below it - Children move from one stage to the next through physical maturation
- based on erous zones of the body that are particularly sensitive to touch and produce sources of pleasure that present successive issues for each child to resolve
- every child automatically produces some frustration and conflict as former way of gaining pleasure are denied
Obstacles to smooth progression
- fixation
- regression
Fixation
A lingering attachment to earlier stage of pleasure seeking behaviour
Regression
Going back to an earlier stage if there is considerable conflict or frustration
Stages of psychosexual development according to fraud
- oral
- Anal.
- Phallic
Ages for oral psychosexual development
Infancy
Describe oral psychosexual development
- first erogenous zones
- Babies pleasures are oral ( breast-feeding)
- Passive time of being fed, receiving care and love through the mouth
- If a child fails to receive satisfaction during this stage (early weaning) fixation may occur throughout life. The person may find ways of regressing to this infantile stage of behaviour by being passive and seeking pleasurable or activities (eating, talking, smoking, drinking, singing)
-Oral character are passively dependent
Ages for anal psychosexual development
+|~ 2 yrs - potty training
Describe anal psycho sexual development
- Second erogenous zone
- the child is becoming aware of his separate identity and developing independence
- Child refuses all sorts of suggestions and request
- Struggles between the parent, and the child are common if the child does not come out of them with good feelings and a new fixation many result leading to tendency to withdraw or refuse to part with one’s own
-anal characteristics are compulsively, clean and organized careful in control at all times stubborn and miserly
What is the age of the phallic psychosexual development?
- third erogenous zone
- Differs between male and female (Oedipal/elertra)
-Aware that some people have penises and other others do not - Becoming more aware of their fathers importance
- The greatest difficulty for a growing child
- a normal child has to settle for a resolution which is not usually satisfying
- later, work in psycho, analyst directed, and exposing repressed memories associated with unresolved feelings of the stage
- Once the child has identified him or herself firmly as a member of his own sex, he or she is ready to move onto the next stage
Family drama - Oedipal complex (males)
- named afterOedipas, the legendary Greek king who knowingly killed his father and married his mother
- Freud believes this occurred in all men
- During the phallic stage
3 Acts of the Oedipal complex
- Love and hate
- fear and renunciation
- Renunciation and final victory
First act - love and hate describe…
Love of mother and jealousy/hate of father
Second act - fear and renunciation
Describe ….
- Fear of cast
- Fear of father
Third act of reunification and final victory
Describe …
- The boy identifies with his father by becoming like his father he will eventually enjoy and erotic partnership of a similar kind