PSYC 2130 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 – Personality.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Krista Phillips

Document Summary

Sensual pleasure is derived from getting it out of the body. Anal erotic stage conflict between need for pleasure that comes from eliminating feaces and social expectations that the child develops self control. Muscle control becomes prototype for self control. When you toilet train your they can actively resist by saying no: child realized can a successful means of social control. These children develop into anal expulsive characters. Child resists in a passive way they hold it in freud says this can be sensually pleasant: if holding it in is successful it sets the stage for anal retentive character. Interested in questions about sexuality, how does the baby get out. Interested in observing their genitals genitals of friends. Freud: conflict in this stage is the last and most crucial: unconscious wish to possess to opposite sex parent and unconscious will to kill the other parent. Oedipus complex opporates different for males & females: boys: first object of love is mom.