Tutorial 3 - Freud Flashcards
What are Freud’s psychosexual stages of development?
- Oral
- Anal
- Phallic
- Latency
- Genital
What is the oral stage?
Dominated by the Id
What is the anal stage?
When the ego is formed
What is the phallic stage?
When the superego emerges
What is the latency stage?
A phase marked by sexual expression
What is the genital stage?
When sexual feeling re-emerge
When is the oral stage?
0-1 years
When is the anal stage?
1-3 years
When is the phallic stage?
3-6 years
When is the latency stage?
6-12 years
When is the genital stage?
12+
What is the pleasure source of the oral stage?
Mouth
What is the pleasure source of the anal stage?
Anus
What is the pleasure source of the phallic stage?
Genitals
What is the pleasure sources of the latency stage?
None
What is the pleasure source of the genital stage?
Genitals
What is the major development in the oral stage?
Coming off breast feeding
What is the major development of the anal stage?
Toilet training
What is the major development of the phallic stage?
Oedipus/ electra complex
What is the major development of the latency stage?
Developing defence mechansisms
What is the major development of the genital stage?
Full sexual maturity
What is the fixation of the oral stage?
Smoking, overeating, nail biting
What is the fixation of the anal stage?
Orderliness, messiness
What is the fixation of the phallic stage?
Sexual dysfunction
What is the fixation of the latency stage?
None
What is the fixation of the genital stage?
Mentally healthy
What is Freud’s triarchical model?
The id, ego, and superego: Freud believed that we are only aware of a small amount of our mind’s activities and that most of it remains hidden from us in our unconscious. The information in our unconscious affects our behavior, although we are unaware of it.
What is the Id?
pleasure principle – immediate gratification; strives to satisfy sexual and aggressive urges
What is the ego?
reality principle – satisfying the id’s desires realistically; mediates between the id and superego; mostly conscious
What is the superego?
internalised ideals - provides standards for judgments
What are the ego defence mechanisms?
- repression
- Denial
- Projection
- Displacement
- Regression
- Sublimation
What is repression?
An unconscious mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious
What is denial?
Involves blocking external events from awareness. If some situation is just too much to handle, the person just refuses to experience it
What is projection?
This involved individuals, attributing their own unacceptable thoughts, feeling and motives to another person
What is displacement?
Satisfying an impulse with a substitute object
What is regression?
This is a movement back in psychological time when one is faced with stress
What is sublimation?
Satisfying an impulse with a substitute object in a socially acceptable way
What are the issues with Freud’s theories?
- He based his theories off his work with troubled adults
- Too focused on human sexuality
- Sexist and overly reliant upon a male perspective
What did Freud give us?
- Highlighted importance of childhood attachment to adult psychological health
