Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Penis Envy, Phallic Stage, Latency Stage

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Psychic energy and mental events instinctual drives generate psychic energy, which powers the mind and constantly presses for either direct or indirect release. Freud divided personality into 3 separate but interacting structures: The id: exists totally within the unconscious mind no contact w/ reality, innermost core of personality, present at birth, source of all psychic energy, pleasure principle: it seeks immediate gratification, regardless of rational considerations and environmental realities. When the ego confronts impulses that threaten to get out of control anxiety results. Oedipus conflict: desire to kill father and have sex with mother. Electra complex: stems from girls" penis envy want to kill mother and have fathers children. This stage is milestone in gender identity identify w/ same-sex parent: latency stage: 7-puberty sexuality becomes dormant, genital stage: puberty on erotic impulses find expression in sexual relations. Evaluating psychoanalytic theory often criticized on scientific grounds.