Developmental Influences

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Developmental Influences

• Freud believes that early childhood influences
  determined the adult personality.
• Parental behaviour is crucial to normal
  development
• Personality and mental health problems in
  adulthood can usually be traced back to the first
  five years.

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Psychosexual Development

• People including children are basically
  hedonistic they are driven to seek pleasure by
  gratifying the Ids desires.
• Sources of pleasure are determined by the
  location of the libido (life-force).
• As a child moves through different developmental
  stages, location of libido and hence sources of
  pleasure change.

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Psychosexual Stages
Oral
The mouth sucking, swallowing etc.
EGO develops
Anal
The anus withholding or expelling faeces
Phallic
The penis or clitoris - masturbation
SUPEREGO develops
Latent
Little or no sexual motivation present
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Genital
The penis or vagina sexual intercourse
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Fixation
Forceful feeding Deprivation Early weaning
Oral activities (e.g. smoking), dependency,
aggression.
Oral
Toilet training Too harsh Too lax
Obsessiveness, tidiness, mean-ness untidiness,
generosity
Anal
Abnormal family set-up leading to unusual
relationship with mother/father
Vanity, self-obsession, sexual anxiety ,
inadequacy, inferiority, envy
Phallic
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