PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Erogenous Zone, Genital Stage, Phallic Stage

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jill Bee Rich

Document Summary

Something having to do with research questions. Oral stage: erogenous zone is the mouth, birth to 18 months. Phallic stage (most important stage: erogenous zone is the genitals, ~4 years old, male (oedipus complex) Freud said that at 4, the male will become attracted to his mother but the mother already has the father. Experiences conflicting feelings/emotions (love and hostility) towards dad. Tension produced by the conflicting feelings are repressed. Child no longer resents dad and dad becomes the sex-role model: female (electra complex) Feels hostility towards mom and blames mom for a lack of penis. They still have incestuous feelings towards their father due to penis envy . Latency stage: no erogenous zone, ~5 puberty, child learns socially acceptable ways of reducing tension. Genital stage: erogenous zone - genitals, ~puberty death, the love object is now a member of the opposite sex (its not the parent.