SOC 2104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Androgyny, Karen Horney, Jean Piaget
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So that explains it: psychoanalytic and developmental perspectives on gender. He believed that the anatomical differences between males and females led them toward different personalities. He believed that differences between men and women were traceable to our different experiences from infancy onwards. Thought that gender identity was a crucial part of development. Sexual energy located in the body propelled his theory of development. Prior to birth freud believed all the infants desires are gratified in the womb and we are sensually content, but birth expels us to an area where our needs are not continuously met. Then oral satisfaction, anal satisfaction, genital where gender comes in through the form of the oedipal crisis, castration anxiety, and the electra complex. The electra complex was developed by jung gi(cid:396)ls (cid:373)ust (cid:396)ealize that the(cid:455) (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e se(cid:454)ual (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)s (cid:449)ith thei(cid:396) mother causing penis envy.
