PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Castration Anxiety, Phallic Stage, Libido

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2B03
• Professor: Judith Shedden

Document Summary

Begins during the phallic stage of psychosexual development between the ages of 3 and 6. Ego is fairly well developed, learned to communicate with language, a powerful tool to satisfy our needs child sexual activity has been narcissistic. Begins with the first investment of libido of an object outside one"s body, becoming non narcissistic invested in the child"s primary care taker: sexual libido cathected to mom. Boy sees dad as rival for mom"s attention: whomever or whatever takes away from the child"s exclusive possession to mom child wants to remove this obstacle, aggression towards that object child"s understanding of what death involves is different. Dicathect most sexual libido from mom: child withdraws sexual libido from mom back into the ego, some is left behind. How much of a threat dad is some libido left cathected to dad: rivalry with their fathers.