Freud's psychoanalytic theory

Psychoanalytic theories

Psychoanalytic theories are psychological frameworks developed by Sigmund Freud and others, which emphasize the role of unconscious processes, childhood experiences, and internal conflicts in shaping personality and behavior. They focus on how these dynamics influence emotional well-being and development throughout the lifespan.

Psychosexual development

A theory proposed by Freud that suggests personality develops through a series of childhood stages, each characterized by different pleasure centers. These stages include oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital, with conflicts at each stage influencing adult personality. Adult personality determined by the way we solve conflicts between the source of pleasure and demand ofreality during these stages.

Describe oral stages, anal stages, phallic stages, latency stages, and genital stage

The stages of psychosexual development proposed by Freud include the oral stage (infancy, 1-1,5 y.o, focus on oral gratification), anal stage (toddlerhood, 1,5-3 y.o, focus on bowel control), phallic stage (preschool, 3-6 y.o, focus on genital awareness), latency stage (childhood, 6-puberty, focus on social and intellectual skills, represses sexual interest), and genital stage (adolescence, focus on mature sexual relationships). Each stage represents a different focus of pleasure that can impact personality development.

Domains of consciousness in psychoanalytic

Psychoanalytic theory identifies three domains of consciousness: the conscious mind (thoughts and feelings we are aware of), the preconscious mind (thoughts that can be brought to awareness), and the unconscious mind (thoughts, memories, and desires that are not accessible but influence behavior). This framework helps explain the complexities of human behavior and personality.

sexual and aggression driving process

The driving forces in human behavior according to Freud's psychoanalytic theory. Sexuality refers to full range of physical pleasure. Aggression encompasses a force to return life to its primal state, often manifesting as assertiveness or hostility.

Characteristic of Oral stage

The oral stage is characterized by the infant's primary focus on oral activities, such as sucking and biting, which provides pleasure and satisfaction. Babies use their mouths to explore environment, express tension, and to experience pleasure. Infants are passive and dependent. This stage is crucial for developing trust and comfort in the environment. They also learn to delay gratification.

Characteristic of anal stage

The anal stage is characterized by a child's focus on controlling bowel movements and achieving independence through toilet training. This stage emphasizes the development of self-control and discipline, influencing personality traits such as orderliness or messiness. The conflict of this stage is between the child's desire for autonomy and the demands of parents for conformity and cleanliness.

What is the characteristic of phallic stage

The phallic stage is characterized by a child's exploration of their own bodies and the differences between genders, leading to the development of sexual identity. Behavior of children are bisexual. This stage involves the Oedipus complex, where boys feel rivalry with their fathers for their mother's attention, while girls experience penis envy.

oedipal complex

A psychological conflict during the phallic stage is when a child feels attraction to the opposite-sex parent and rivalry with the same-sex parent. They sought attention from the opposite-sex parent and fear of hostility from the same sex parent. The child also worries that the same-sex parent will withdraw love. There will be conflict between wanting to satisfy sexual drives and the awareness that self-stimulation is not socially acceptable; conflict between wanting to remain a child who is loved by both parents and the desire to assume a more mature roles in the eyes of opposite-sex parent; conflict between rivalry with the same-sex parent and desire to preserve parent love; the pressure to embrace one's own gender identity and the envy one feels toward the opposite sex. It is a crucial aspect of psychosexual development, emerge the super-ego

Penis envy

A concept in psychoanalytic theory where a girl experiences feelings of inferiority and jealousy due to the absence of a penis, leading to a desire for male characteristics or power. This is often linked to the development of female identity and the dynamics within the Oedipus complex.

What is the characteristic of latent stage

Characterized with slowed in sexual development, and repression ensues. Drives sublimated to new channels such as school, social interaction, and friendships. Focus on developing social skills

What is the characteristic of genital stage

The person finds ways of satisfying sexual and emotional desires through mature relationships.

Fixation

Continues to seek pleasure or anxiety-reducing behaviors appropriate to the earlier stage of development

Sublimation

symbolize the impulses or express them in a socially acceptable form like life orientation

Strengths of psychoanalytic theory

offered a view of unconscious mind, highlight the significance of early childhood, describes stages of development, highlight the importance of sexual and aggressive motives, can link the early expression of sexual and aggressive motives to adult pathologies

Weakness of psychoanalytic theory

fails to highlight the social needs of human, the motivational structure flexible over lifespan, and are competency and mastery based. Does not take into cultural diversity, overemphasizes the role of father as fearful,