PS260 Study Guide - Melanie Klein, Anal Retentiveness, Latency Stage
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Superego: part of the personality that represents conscience, morality, and social standards last to develop. Judges activities of the id good feelings when done something good, and bad when done something bad: partly conscious, but largely unconscious, development of personality: Oedipus conflict (not as powerful in girls because they don"t have a penis: child settles into a nonsexual latency stage and prepares for the genital stage with puberty leading to sexuality. Created by carl jung adding to freud"s theory saying that in addition to the unconscious, all human beings share a vast collective unconscious universal memories, symbols, images, and themes called archetypes. More positives in the forward-moving strengths of the ego, also believed people are motivated by their future goals and desires as well. First to identify introversion and extroversion: object relations school. Emphasizes the importance of the infant"s first two years of life and the baby"s formative relationships, especially with the mother melanie klein.
