PSYC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Electra Complex, Castration Anxiety, Phallic Stage
24 Sep 2020
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Oral habits like thumb sucking, fingernail biting, eating, smoking. Retentive traits like orderly, thrifty, stubborn, controlling. Expulsive traits like messy, generous, scatological humor. Crucial stage in development of superego and sex roles. For both sexes, conflict begins with attraction to mom. Boy begins to hate father as rival. Internalizes father as disciplinarian creates superego. Begins same as boys mother as source of pleasure, attraction. Girl realizes she is missing something penis envy. Becomes attracted to dad he has a penis. Identification with mom as she is penis-less too. Conflicts shame and guilt about sexuality. Children leave energy behind at almost every stage. Timing of childhood conflicts and fixations shapes adult. Problems caused by fixations energy stuck in past conflicts. Talking cure: free association, analysis of resistance. Show person an ambiguous stimulus and they will project their wishes and conflicts onto it. Captures important conflicts between desires, reality, morality.
