PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Charles Manson, Bsc Young Boys, Dysfunctional Family
25 Feb 2014
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The amount the child withdraws depends on how much of a threat the main rival is and also how pleasurable the mother has been. The more threatening the dad in this case, the more libido the child withdraws from the mom. 2 child then also decathects most of the aggressive libido that he has invested in dad, and again the amount depends on how threatening dad is. He will make part of him dad" like: there are 2 reasons why the child identifies with the dad, the primary reason is defensive if i"m like someone, that person is less likely to attack. One of the classic cases was the case of patty hurst, the granddaughter of a multi millionaire family. She was kept captive for number of weeks. Suddenly the soa the group that kidnapped her, decided to start robbing banks and the very first person there holding the gun and participating in the bank robbery is patty hurts.
