Psychodynamic Explanation (Gender)
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- Created on: 09-04-14 17:38
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- Freud's Psychoanalytic Explanation
- Proposed psychosexual stages
- Anal Stage (18-36 months)
- Gender identity is seen as flexible, children are 'bisexual'
- Oral Stage (0-18 months)
- Gender identity is seen as flexible, children are 'bisexual'
- Anal Stage (18-36 months)
- Parental Involvement in Gender Identity Acquisition
- Phallic Stage
- Proposed psychosexual stages
- Anal Stage (18-36 months)
- Oral Stage (0-18 months)
- Anal Stage (18-36 months)
- Gender identity starts to develop
- Between 3-6 as pleasure is focused around genitals
- Oedipus Complex
- All boys develop conflict
- Arises due to boys feelings towards mother, and jealousy of father
- Therefore fears castration from father
- Identification
- Adopting values, behaviours and morals of same sex parents to resolve conflict
- Leads to boy identifying with father to resolve conflict
- Boy adopt same gender identity and role as father
- Starts behaving as a male
- Boy adopt same gender identity and role as father
- Leads to boy identifying with father to resolve conflict
- Adopting values, behaviours and morals of same sex parents to resolve conflict
- Identification
- Therefore fears castration from father
- Arises due to boys feelings towards mother, and jealousy of father
- All boys develop conflict
- Electra Complex
- Girls develop conflict
- Arises due to girls having feelings for father
- Girls develop conflict
- Proposed psychosexual stages
- Phallic Stage
- Little Hans Case Study
- Hans had a phobia of horses
- Freud used psychoanalytic theory to interpret Hans' development
- Found that Hans' fear of horses was a displaced fear of castration from father
- White horse with black around mouth represented father
- Fear of falling horses represented unconscious desire for father to drop dead
- White horse with black around mouth represented father
- Found that Hans' fear of horses was a displaced fear of castration from father
- Freud used psychoanalytic theory to interpret Hans' development
- Hans had a phobia of horses
- Believe gender is driven by unconscious forces
- Proposed psychosexual stages
- Identification
- Adopting values, behaviours and morals of same sex parents to resolve conflict
- Leads to boy identifying with father to resolve conflict
- Boy adopt same gender identity and role as father
- Starts behaving as a male
- Boy adopt same gender identity and role as father
- Leads to boy identifying with father to resolve conflict
- Adopting values, behaviours and morals of same sex parents to resolve conflict
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