Warm-Up #5
• What is socialization?
• Now… with your partner, come up with 2
words that could be descriptive of each age
decades?
Fundamental Assumptions of
Psychoanalytic Approach
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Unconscious factors motivate our behavior
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Experiences or events of first 6 yrs of life are
determinants of later development of
personality (attention is given to those
experiences )
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Unconscious motives and conflicts are central
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Later personality problems will have its roots
on early repressed childhood conflicts
Psychosexual Stages
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Oral Stage ( First year of life ):
– Feeding from the mother satisfies the need for
food and pleasure
• Oral – Incorporative behavior ---- Pleasurable
stimulation of the mouth – excessive eating,
chewing, talking, smoking, drinking (Oral
fixation )
• Oral – Aggressive behavior --- Infant teethes,
biting need – if not adequately met – result in
feelings of greediness and acquisitiveness etc..
Psychosexual Stages
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Anal Stage (Age 1-3 ) :
– Toilet training starts
– One learns independence, accepts personal power,
knows to express negative feelings of rage and aggression
– Learns first lessons of discipline
– Strict toilet training “ Anal Aggressive Personality –
Cruelty, inappropriate displays of anger, extreme
disorderliness etc..
– Too much importance to the anal activity. Anal-retentive
personality – extreme orderliness, hoarding,
stubbornness and stinginess etc..
Psychosexual Stages
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Phallic Stage ( Age 3-6 ) :
– Child experiences unconscious incestuous desires for the
parent of the opposite sex which is repressed because of its
threatening nature – Conflict at this period
– Oedipus complex – boy desiring mother as love object
– Electra Complex - girl desiring father and his love and
approval
– Attitudes of the parents at this stage towards the emerging
sexuality of the child are going to affect the sexual
attitudes and feelings of the child
– Threatening or punishing --- adverse effect in adult sexual
life
Psychosexual Stages
• Latency Stage ( Age 6-12 ) :
– “Sleeping period”
– Child socializes and turns its attention outward
and forms relationship with others
– Formal sexual interests are replaced by
interests in playmates in a wide variety of
activities in school like games and sports
Psychosexual Stages
• Genital Stage (Age 12-18 ) :
– Starts with puberty
– Adolescent develops interest in the opposite sex and assumes adult
responsibilities
– “To love and to work” – Motto
“ Since Freud wanted to resolve sexual issues during the
first six yrs of life he did not go into great detail in
discussing the crisis associated with adolescence or
adulthood or old age “
Erik Erikson
• A neo-Freudian
• Thought our personality was
influenced by our
experiences with others.
• Stages of Psychosocial
Development.
• Each stage centers on a
social conflict.
Conflict example: Ariel
• Identity vs. role
confusion
• Ariel wants to have legs
and become a human
even though she is a
mermaid.
Remember your conflict!
• 1. Trust vs. distrust
• 2. Autonomy vs. shame
an doubt
• 3. Initiative vs. guilt
• 4. Industry vs.
inferiority
• 5. Identity vs. role
confusion
• 6. Intimacy vs. isolation
• 7. Generativity vs.
stagnation
• 8. Ego integrity vs.
despair