CT250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Penis Envy, Toilet Training, Role Theory
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Evolutionary looks at psychological traits, but ties them to bodies. And today will be looking at it without tying it to the bodies. Learning process - if females had the male part, they should learn to be masculine, or the other way around. Interested in how we come to act in certain ways. We are contented everything is satisfied - with what we are given. Oral phase - new way of contentment, which is mother"s breast. Given up due to process of growing up. Denial of pleasure - no more breast feeding. Anal phase - new way of contentment is through excretion. But we are eventually to learn to control and repress our desires to poops. Genital phase - where we start to differ, when we begin to realize there are differences in genitals. When we identify with the gender of our parents - a longer phase. Freud defined it as - you either have something or you lack it.