PSY-33 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Anal Retentiveness, Erogenous Zone, Phallic Stage
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Foundations of freudian psychoanalysis is that adult personality is formed as result of childhood experiences. Infant or child feels tensions in an erogenous zone and must find a way of gratifying the id impulse in a socially acceptable way. One id is gratified, tension subsides and child moves onto next stage. Fixation: where psychic energy is still devoted to resolving the earlier issue instead of moving fully into the next stage. Fixated person will show certain adult personality traits and engage in behaviors directly related to the fixation. Sf said id impulses are present from birth. By age 2, ego is formed and we learn to control bowel functions. By age 5, superego is formed as result of resolving the oedipal complex. By age 5, id ego and superego are fully formed and work together. Sf said first 5 years are more important for development and said personality was set by the age of 5.
