PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Toilet Training, Bitters, Penis Envy

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2B03
• Professor: Richard B Day

Document Summary

Lecture 7: the oedipus complex is really important in development. It marks the child"s graduation to the outside world: the girl has penis envy. Genital stage: from age of 12 to rest of our life. Involves integration of adult form based on summation on all of these investments, they emerge integrated and organized in what we would call adult sexuality in variety of forms. Oral stage fixation: there are two sub-stages that one could be fixated in this stage, the first 8 months the oral incorporative stages. We use these oral terms to refer to strong libidal attachment, because so much of our sexual pleasure even in adulthood remains oral. Any form of activity that is pleasurable and involves taking in, whatever it is can be referred to as oral pleasure. Refer to gullible person as a sucker which includes oral incorporation. 3: the example of adam and eve eating the apple even shows evidence for oral.