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Review for Exam - Freud's Psychosexual Stages |, Study notes of Psychology

Material Type: Notes; Class: Psychology; Subject: Psychology; University: Quinnipiac University; Term: Forever 1989;

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PS 101 Exam #2
Freud’s Psychosexual Stages
1. Oral Stage – (0-2 years). Infant. TRUST.
2. Anal Stage – (2-4 years). Toddler. Toilet training, SELF CONTROL. Good/Bad = Clean/Dirty.
3. Phallic Stage – (5-7 years). Pre-school Kindergarten (1st). Sexual Identity/Orientation
Boy = Oedipal Complex
Girl = Electra Complex
4. Latency – (7-12/13 years). ELEMENTARY
5. Genital – a person should be heterosexual and have the ability to maintain a relationship that is
free from major issues of trust, control, or sexual identity.
Freud’s View of the Nature of People
Little Animals – impulsive, irrational, selfish, self-centered
Socialize:
Hedonistic (pleasure seeking)
Id – Pleasure, Aggression, Sex.
2 Levels – Literal and Psychological/Symbolic
Libido – general need for satisfaction
Id – little animal born in us. Sex, aggression, biology. (irrational)
Superego – values, morals. Anal stage. Phallic stage (identity with same sex parent). CONSCIENCE.
(guilt).
Ego – mediator, logic. “Reality Principle”
Conscious – information that you are thinking of right now or that is immediately/easily retrievable.
Preconscious – you have to do some work to get it up. It is buried (traumatic/anxiety issues related to
situation).
Unconscious – (subconscious) – “repressed memories” buried out of our awareness usually because of
some anxiety associated with it.
Fixations
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PS 101 Exam # Freud’s Psychosexual Stages

  1. Oral Stage – (0-2 years). Infant. TRUST.
  2. Anal Stage – (2-4 years). Toddler. Toilet training, SELF CONTROL. Good/Bad = Clean/Dirty.
  3. Phallic Stage – (5-7 years). Pre-school  Kindergarten (1st). Sexual Identity/Orientation  Boy = Oedipal Complex  Girl = Electra Complex
  4. Latency – (7-12/13 years). ELEMENTARY
  5. Genital – a person should be heterosexual and have the ability to maintain a relationship that is free from major issues of trust, control, or sexual identity. Freud’s View of the Nature of People Little Animals – impulsive, irrational, selfish, self-centered Socialize:  Hedonistic (pleasure seeking)  Id – Pleasure, Aggression, Sex. 2 Levels – Literal and Psychological/Symbolic Libido – general need for satisfaction Id – little animal born in us. Sex, aggression, biology. (irrational) Superego – values, morals. Anal stage. Phallic stage (identity with same sex parent). CONSCIENCE. (guilt). Ego – mediator, logic. “Reality Principle” Conscious – information that you are thinking of right now or that is immediately/easily retrievable. Preconscious – you have to do some work to get it up. It is buried (traumatic/anxiety issues related to situation). Unconscious – (subconscious) – “repressed memories” buried out of our awareness usually because of some anxiety associated with it. Fixations

Oral:  Aggressive – someone who does not get enough satisfaction. Non trusting.  Dependent – brat. Anal:  Retentive (ocd) – guilt  Expulsive – don’t care Phallic Sexuality – no dad = gay Oedipus Complex – a conflict of the phallic stage in which the boy wishes to posses his mother sexually and perceives his father as a rival in love. Boy fears castration. Resolution – breaks psychological bond and represses it. Identifies with dad. Electra Complex – a complex of the phallic stage in which the girl longs for her father and resents her mother. Girl feels she is not complete without a penis. Defense Mechanisms (Unconscious techniques used to protect yourself from stress and anxiety) Page 403 for examples  Humor  Repression – ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas from awareness.  Denial – the refusal to face the true nature of a threat.  Sublimation – taking id impulses and redirecting them into socially acceptable behaviors.  Projection – people who project, repress their own feeling and project them out onto other people and see other people acting that way to them.  Isolation – closing off your feelings from your thoughts  Rationalization – using reasons of facts or logic to cope with anxiety  Displacement – when you take aggression and direct it to a safer target then what you are really angry at.  Reaction Formation – a person has an id impulse that is unacceptable to them so they repress that impulse so they are no longer aware of it, and they act in the extreme opposite way. Psychoanalysis  Very Long

 Sensate Therapy – behavioral model where a person learns new sexual behaviors and responses and reduces or extinguishes sexual anxieties.

  1. Sexual Disorders – (paraphilias)  “normal” sexuality should be about communicating with another person, and the other person being arousing to you.  Abnormal sexuality is when an object, location, or situation becomes the primary reason for arousal.  If you have a disorder, the abnormal situation must always be present for real physical pleasure or orgasm.  This activity is often rigid, or compulsive and the preferred or exlusive method of achieving sexual satisfaction.  Motivation – “power” The Sexual Disorders:  Fetish – arousal by an object or materials (leather, latex, rubber).  Voyeur – person who becomes sexually aroused from watching other people in sexual situations who don’t know they are being watched.  Exhibitionism – (flasher) Someone who becomes aroused by exposing their body to non suspecting people.  Sexual Sadism – When the preferred or exclusive mode of achieving sexual gratification is to inflict pain, suffering, humiliation, (whipping, bonding, piercings, etc) onto your partner.  Sexual Masochism – receive  Transvestite – man who enjoys dressing as a woman. Heterosexual man.  Pedophilia – people aroused by children. Were victims as children.