PSYCHODYNAMIC EXPLANATION OF GENDER DEVELOPMENT - FREUD
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- Created on: 03-04-18 09:35
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- Pre-phallic children - theory sees children pass through 5 psycho sexual stages.
- Begins with oral stage, ends with genital.
- The phallic stage is where gender development occurs and is the THIRD stage.
- Occurs around ages of 3 and 6. Children have no concept of gender identity prior to this stage.
- The phallic stage is where gender development occurs and is the THIRD stage.
- In the phallic stage, the focus of pleasure for the child switches to the genitals and in this stage they experience OC or EC
- These stages are curcial in the formation of gender identity.
- Begins with oral stage, ends with genital.
- Freud believes that children of both sexes identify with the same sex parent as a means of resolving their complexes.
- Involving children to take on board gender identity of the same sex parent - INTERNALISATION.
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