Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 59: Electra Complex, 18 Months, Age 13

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Proposed psychological development in childhood developed through these stages, and concept of tension and pleasure the build-up of tension could cause a lot of conflicts. Fixation was due to concept of libido a natural energy source that fuels mechanisms of mind. And when libido energy is fixated, can have lifelong effect well into adulthood. Libido is centered at different parts of the body at different times of development. First 5 years of life are crucial in development of personality. Mnemonic old age parrots love grapes or old age pensioners love. Grapes/genitals or orangantanges always play with little gorillas: old = oral, age = anal, parrots = phallic, love = latent, grapes = genital. Depending on what stage we"re at, going to be different fixation of energy at certain body part: for oral stage focus is mouth. For anal stage, anus, phallic is genitals, latent is none, and genital stage is the genitals.