PHL 606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anal Stage, Exhibitionism, Autoeroticism
25 Feb 2014
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Sexual (+human) development is a function of sexual drives + mental dams. Freud says you have sexual drives that go one way and then mental dams that have repressive forces (disgust, shame, aesthetic moral values, pity) Pg 27 of freud book talks about perversion (having sex with dead bodies) etc. He says we need to study child behaviour, lets go back and see how our sex drives develop. Infantile amnesia from 0 to 5 years old there is lots of things to suggest kids are sexual, and around. And from 2 to 5 they are quite sophisticated little people, good memories, strong views (very developed psyche) almost all of this is forgotten, we only remember flashes. **only around 7 to 8 years old** that you start to remember events, who you are as a person. He says this is due to having a period of sexual efflorescence.
