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  • Conscience in the work of Freud
    • Sigmund Freud
      • Founder and father of psychoanalysis
      • Saw conscience as guilty complex
        • Thought process leads human brings to undertake actions out of a sense of guilt and embarrassment for previous actions or feelings
    • Oedipus complex
      • The sexual desire of a son for his mother & sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex (his father)
        • A natural desire
        • Part of child's moral development
      • Starting point - Freud's understanding human guilt & need of conscience
      • Freud: believed importance of sexuality in human psychology
      • All children experience it - stage of development
    • Electra Complex
      • The sexual desire of a daughter for her father and the sense of rivalry with mother
      • Less strong than the Oedipus complex
    • Conscience develops from this sense of guilt
      • Child knows it's wrong  - this wish develops into the child's love and affection for their parent
      • Stage ends = child represses its sexual desires
        • & Identifies with the parent of the same sex
    • Resolution of the Oedipus complex os the origin ofr the development of the person

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