PSY343H1 Chapter Notes -Hypermasculinity, Otto F. Kernberg, Birth Order
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Freud: the basis of neurosis was the conflict between the id"s instinctive desires and society"s retribution for the direct expression of those desires. Freud insisted that as the founder he alone had the right to decide what should be called psychoanalysis. This led some of the best minds, including alfred adler and carl jung, to leave the psychoanalytic society to develop their own systems. Psychoanalysis is a conflict model leading to compromise formation. Defenses also keep us from experiencing the anxiety and guilt that would be elicited by desires to break parental and social rules. Freud"s psychosexual developmental stages (see slides: oral stage, with deprivation, the child can remain fixated at the oral stage: energies are directed primarily toward finding the oral gratification that was in short supply during childhood. Fixation at the oral stage brings a tendency to rely on more primitive defenses when threatened or frustrated.
