PSYC 1030H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Conversion Disorder, Birth Order, Anal Retentiveness
3 Sep 2013
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Traits: enduring predispositions that influence our behaviour across situations. Types and traits: provides description, do not explain. Tension: satisfy the id need, adapt within the superego, creates the ego, oral stage weaning. Too liberal optimistic, gullible, talks to: anal stage toilet training. Too harsh anal retentive, obsessive, neat. Too liberal anal expulsive, messy, disorganized, dramatic: phallic stage addressing attraction to opposite-sex parent. Electra complex (females) penis envy: latency no conflict. Focus on same-sex peers: genital stage. Ways to supress demands of the id: major ego defence mechanisms. Ego defense mechanisms: pathological (failure to cope with reality) Reaction formation (saying the opposite: mature. Psychoanalytic concepts are vague not operationally defined. Bad science cannot reliably predict, can only explain after the fact. Developmental theory no observation of children: minimizes child abuse claims. Male bias they"re considered the norm. Adler focus on attempts to move from inferiority to superiority. Horney challenged freud"s emphasis on penis envy;" coined womb-envy".
