Freud by SHAH, SARA (UG)

2023-11-21 11:47:07 UTC

The Oedipus Complex

u5549044_ — 2023-11-21 11:59:41 UTC

My main theory focuses on the idea of a son's sexual attraction to their mother and hostility towards their father. However, these feelings are repressed due to fear of displeasure or punishment from the same sex parent.

Key Facts about Me

sunikaur2 — 2023-11-21 12:00:10 UTC

I lived during world war 1
I am Jewish
I am an Austrian Neurologist

Birthday

u5549044_ — 2023-11-21 12:01:14 UTC

6th May 1856

Place of Birth

u5549044_ — 2023-11-21 12:03:52 UTC

Příbor, Czech Republic

Place of work

u5549044_ — 2023-11-21 12:04:28 UTC

Vienna General Hospital

Place of death

u5549044_ — 2023-11-21 12:04:49 UTC

Hampstead, London

Place of study

u5549044_ — 2023-11-21 12:05:19 UTC

Studied medicine at the University of Vienna

Quotes

u5549044_ — 2023-11-21 12:06:32 UTC

"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water"

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind"

Personality Tripartite

u5543282_ — 2023-11-21 12:09:43 UTC

I believe that the personality is split up into three parts: the id, the ego, and the superego. The Id rules the pleasure principle whilst the superego rules the morality principle, and the ego is the mediator between the two: the reality principle. The id and superego are part of the unconscious, whilst the ego is a part of the conscious. I believe that our mind is like an iceberg and the majority of our mind is made up by our unconscious mind. Our conscious mind is like the tip of the iceberg as it is visible and we are aware of this, whereas we are not aware of the motivations behind our unconscious, suggesting that it might be more important in terms of impacting our behaviour.

Psychosexual stages

u5549044_ — 2023-11-21 12:11:22 UTC

We move through these age related stage of development, encountering different conflicts. These must be resolved - failure to do so is known as a fixation

Psychodynamic theory of learning

u5544461_ — 2023-11-21 12:11:39 UTC

I believe that all individuals are in a constant state of development and growth through their interactions with their environment (nurture). This means that each individual creates unique knowledge and skills based on their experiences in life.

Oral stage

u5549044_ — 2023-11-21 12:13:57 UTC

0 - 1 years

Focus of libido is the mouth. Within this stage the child desires to be breastfed.

Consequence of unresolved conflict is oral fixation; this includes smoking, biting nails, sarcastic, critical.

Anal stage

u5549044_ — 2023-11-21 12:17:08 UTC

1 - 3 years

Focus of libido is the anus.

Within this stage the child gains pleasure from withholding and expelling faeces.

Consequence of unresolved conflict includes:

anal retentive - perfectionist, obsessive

anal expulsive - thoughtless, messy

Defence Mechanisms

u5543282_ — 2023-11-21 12:18:00 UTC

These are what we use in order to avoid any kind of negative emotion that we do not want to feel. The first defence mechanism is repression which means that an individual may want to push an experience/thought out of their conscious mind. This is an unconscious mechanism that is driven by the ego. Another Defence mechanism is displacement. This involves substituting your negative emotion towards something/someone onto something else. This usually involves anger, for example if a student is annoyed because they got told off by a teacher, they might then go home and shout at their sibling in order to substitute this emotion. A final defence mechanism is Denial. This is when a person refuses to accept the reality of something and therefore, chooses to ignore this. For example, a person may choose to cope with the loss of someone by refusing to believe that they are actually gone, and therefore, they are in denial.

Why my theories are important

u5544461_ — 2023-11-21 12:23:48 UTC

I am deeply affected by the outbreak of World War I and later by the rise of the Nazis in Germany.

I founded psychoanalysis as a way of listening to patients and better understanding how their minds work. Psychoanalysis continues to have an enormous influence on modern psychology and psychiatry.

my theories and work helped shape current views of dreams, childhood, personality, memory, sexuality, and therapy. My work also laid the foundation for many other theorists to formulate ideas, while others developed new theories in opposition to his ideas.

u5543282_ — 2023-11-21 12:36:55 UTC

Phallic stage

u5549044_ — 2023-11-21 12:36:57 UTC

3 - 5 years

Focus of libido is the genitals.

In this stage the child experiences the Oedipus or Electra complex.

Consequence of unresolved conflict - phallic personality, which includes narcissism, recklessness, possibility of homosexuality.

Latency stage

u5549044_ — 2023-11-21 12:38:19 UTC

6 - 11 years

Earlier conflicts are repressed within this stage.

u5543282_ — 2023-11-21 12:38:50 UTC

Genital stage

u5549044_ — 2023-11-21 12:40:41 UTC

12+

Focus of libido is the genitals

Sexual desires become conscious alongside onset of puberty.

Consequence of unresolved conflicts - difficulty to form heterosexual relationships.

Application to Learning

sunikaur2 — 2023-11-21 12:41:00 UTC

I alongside other psychologists have developed Psychoanalytic theories which aim to understand how and why humans behave and think in specific patterns from infancy

I believe the development of the whole personality is the purpose of education - intellect and emotions are for social desirable aims.

I think a child's resistance can be explained by inadequate environmental conditions or critical teachers and parents. That is why I believe children's environments's should be a key focus promoting key opportunities for creative activities and increase chances of sublimation. Play is very significant, so much that it has given rise to play-therapy as treatments for emotional problems.

u5549044_ — 2023-11-21 12:43:06 UTC

Me and my hater

sunikaur2 — 2023-11-21 16:31:48 UTC

Examples of Jung having no original thoughts

sunikaur2 — 2023-11-21 16:58:29 UTC

Me: human psyche has three parts - id, ego and superego
Jung: human psyche has three parts - ego, personal unconscious, collective unconscious
- like he for real just copied me with their being three parts to the unconscious mind and then it didn't just stop there, he had to steal one of my key components of the structure as well. get a life
Me: dreams represent our deepest desires from the unconscious that cannot be directly accessed due to anxiety and embarrassment
Jung: dreams are a gateway to the unconscious mind but are symbolic and could express personal, collective or universal contents
- bruh the way he had the audacity to criticise me for only focusing on the objective and external aspects of dreams just because he looked at the internal subjective parts. honey, i am the blueprint
Me: repressed and expressed sexuality is everything and is the motivating force behind behaviour. the oedipus and electra complex portray this
Jung: psychic energy or life force is the motivating force behind behaviour. oedipus impulses are wrong and love and protection is what the relationship between mother and child is based upon
- this one annoys me so much!! I am an innovater. I am ahead of my time. I don't see any other psychologists looking outside the box like I did ok. who is he to disagree with me, smh. at least my ideas are somewhat interesting unlike his, what a bore

Nature or Nurture???

sunikaur2 — 2023-11-21 17:28:27 UTC

I believe we learn through nature and nurture.

Little Hans

u5549044_ — 2023-11-23 01:33:03 UTC

My case study on the five 5 year old boy is the main contributing evidence that my theory is based upon. I had aimed to investigate what factors could have caused his phobia of horses. From the age of three, Hans began to show an interest in 'widdlers', including his own, leading to his mother threatening to cut it off.

His fear eventually improved to only horses with black harnesses over their nose - hans father suggested it symbolised his moustache.

This clearly indicated that his fear of horses was linked to the Oedipus complex, as the horses unconsciously represented his fear of his father.

Hans did eventually overcome and resolve this conflict, as he fantasized himself with a big penis and married to his mother. This allowed him to overcome his castration anxiety and identify with his father.