PSYC 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Electra Complex, Gender Identity, Neurology
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Freud, founder of psychoanalysis: gender identity is developed in stages through experiences in infancy, as propelled by body. We will be told that something happened and the people grew up in refugee camps and in a world of war. It is normal for them, the environment counts: significance. A shift from biology to social explanation. Links gender identity to sexual orientation (homosexuality is not a biological anomaly or an immoral issue). Restates (supports) traditional gender stereotypes: limitations. Androcentric theory; the focus is on men and not women, they are concentrating on male achieving their masculinity. Ahistorical explanations (ignored social conditions in austria; europe was highly patriarchal). Sees gender identity as an achievement: traumatic for boys / develops values of connectivity, intimacy and community in girls. Girls and their mothers belong to the same sex, so it is easier for them to develop their gender identity and good interpersonal relationships.
