YC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Steven Pinker, Phallic Stage, Evolutionary Psychology
31 May 2020
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If you take one twin away from the other and place it in another social environment they will become different people: because they are raised in different conditions/cultures. Normal" children move through a series of fixed stages of psychosocial and personality development: children are born with a fixed set of innate drives = id, driven by pleasurable principle = +pleasurable experiences, -painful experiences. Interaction with parents is important in relation to the oedipal complex: boys and girls move through fixed stages in fairly consistent ways until the phallic stage, freud assumed the existence of a universal, naturally developing, unconscious child. Erik erikson"s stages of psychosocial crisis nature. Begins to create logical structures that explain physical experiences. Makes rational judgements and capable of deductive and hypothetical reasoning. No one (no ability to take the role of. Engaging in play imitation during infancy during early childhood. The self is able simultaneously to take the role of:
