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Instincts
- Sex
- Aggression
- Libido Force by which sexual instinct is represented in the mind
- Sexual Instinct complex process; psychosexual devt
Anal Stage (1-3 yrs)
Definition
Description
- intensification of aggressive
drives mixed with libidinal
components and sadistic impulses
- 2 separate components
+ oral drives: libidinal
(earlier oral erotism) and
aggressive (oral sadism)
biting, chewing, spitting, crying
primitive wishes of biting
devouring and destroying
- oral tension oral
gratification quiescence after
nursing
Objectives
Urethral Stage
- transitional stage not
explicitly treated by Freud
- shares some characteristics
with anal stage and phallic
stage
- Pleasure in Urination
- urethral erotism: urethral
retention
- to establish a trusting
- homosexual affiliations,
sublimation of libidinal
and aggressive energies
- learning and play
- development of
important skills
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- further integration of
- to establish comfortable
expression and gratification of
oral libidinal needs without
excessive conflict or
ambivalence from oral sadistic
wishes
oedipal identifications
AND consolidation of
sex-role identity and
sex roles
- Contact w/ figures
outside the family,
teacher and other adults
- sense of industry
- essential for Future
Satisfaction in Work
and Love
Pathological
Traits
Character
Traits Resolution
Excessive optimism,
narcissism, pessimism
(depression)
Demandingness
Excessively
dependent
requires others to give
to them and to look
after them
Extremely dependent
on objects for
maintenance of selfesteem
Envy and jealousy
Excessive Oral
Gratification
Libidinal FIxations
Orderliness
Obstinacy
Stubbornness
Willfulness
Frugality
Fixation on Anal
Character
Parsimony
Heightened
ambivalence
Lack of tidiness
Messiness
Defiance
Rage
Sadomasochistic
tendencies
Obsessive-compulsive
neuroses
Development of personal
autonomy
Capacity for
independence and
personal initiative without
guilt
Competitiveness and
ambition
(compensate for
shame due to loss of
urethral control)
Control
Shaming
Set the stage for
Gender Identity
Determinants of human
character development:
Complex Phenomenon
Core of Neuroses
Males: castration
Females: penis envy
Patterns of
identification
Provide:
Foundations for
sexual identity
Sense of curiosity
without
embarrassment
- ego development
Danger:
- lack of development of
inner control failure of
child to sufficiently
sublimate energies in the
interests of learning and
development of skills
- excess of control
premature closure of
personality development
Period of
integrating and
consolidating
previous
attainments in
psychosexual
development
trust, self-reliance
and self-trust
Regulation of drive
impulses and direction
to constructive ends
Superego: internal
source of regulation
parental figures
and
establishing
decisive
patterns of
adaptive
functioning
sense of
industry and
mastery of
objects
Basis for mature
adult life of
satisfaction in
work and love