PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Toilet Training, Sophocles, Electra Complex
28 Dec 2017
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Based on his patients histories, freud believed that personality forms in the first years of life. More specifically, that the foundations of personality were formed by age 5 or 6. Freud saw all human behavior as motivated by the drives or instincts. These instincts perpetuate: the life of the individual by seeking nourishment, the life of the species by motivating him/her to have sex. For freud, the sex drive was the most important motivating force. Sexuality, for freud, meant not just intercourse, but all pleasurable sensation from the skin. Freud noted that, at different times in our lives, different parts of our body give us greatest pleasure. From this notion he formulated a stage theory of development. Psychosexual theory of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) At each stage, child would experience pleasure in one part of the body more than another. And he named the stages for the specific area that gave the greatest pleasure during that stage.
