PSY230H1 Lecture Notes - Oedipus Complex, Sigmund Freud, Psychopathology
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People who cannot get out of their family psychopathologies. Lots of power play in families; according to freud sibling rivalry can be murderous (children need attention; attention = money) Nasty game: attending to daughter and son over wife and husband (sexual contamination starts here) Humans are parabondic creatures circuit initially evolved to establish relationship between mother and child; also used to bond with partner (less prevalent in males than in females). The median (50th percentile) woman is more agreeable than 85% of males, who are more predatory than. The more egalitarian the state, the bigger the differences between men and women in traits. If you eradicate environmental variability, genetic variability maximizes (it doesn"t just disappear). The fundamental bonds between romantic partners elaborations of circuitry used by mammals to bond with their children (lots of touching, closeness, infantile terms of endearment)
