Transcript Learning Objective: to explore the psychosexual stages of

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Joe
Learning Objective: to explore the psychosexual
stages of development
• ALL will know the five stages of psychosexual
development
• MOST will be able to analyse the result of
fixations at a stage and the impact that this
has on adult personality
• SOME will construct the basis for the A01
component of an essay on the psychodynamic
approach
DO NOW: read the poem on your desk, how
might it relate to today’s learning objective?
Do Now: FEEDBACK
• Philip Larkin, who, by the way, was a proper poet and
therefore authorised to swear in print, was half-jokingly
articulating an idea that is distinctly Freudian.
• Namely, that our parents have an immense impact on how we
turn our as adults. Not only do they act as models for our
values and morals and the many positive things we may be or
do but their actions can also shape our personalities in
undesirable ways.
• So, for a Freudian, a person’s immoral or criminal behaviour,
their neuroses, fears, anxieties, depression and all sorts of
other nasty things can usually be traced back to their parents’
behaviour or the way they related to their child. People don’t
have any control over how they act – it’s all down to their
parents.
• However, both Larkin and Freud make another point, which is
often overlooked. Our parents didn’t do this because they
were bad people.
• They, in their turn, had no control over how they turned out
because it was their parents who shaped them, and these
were shaped by their parents and so on
• So how does this happen, and can we predict what the
outcome might be of parental behaviour when the child
grows up?
• Freud spent many years developing a theory of childhood
development. It specifies how the child’s psyche changes as it
grows up and describes the crucial influences on development
at different times.
• You may find some of its aspects rather unsettling, because
Freud asks us to believe that right from the word ‘go’, children
are driven by impulses that are sexual in nature.
Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development
• At the root of Freud’s theory is the idea that all
people are driven by an instinctual drive he called
libido. This is often regarded as synonymous with
‘sex drive’ but Freud actually meant something
closer to ‘life force’.
• Whilst the libido is manifested in the sexual
drives, it can take different forms.
• Freud thought that libido originated in the body
at different stages of development, the libido
moves to a different area of the body, and this
determines what the child finds pleasurable.
• Whatever the child enjoys, it will try to do. The tricky
job the parents have is to strike a balance between
letting the child over-indulge itself and denying it any
pleasure at all.
• If the parents get it wrong, the child may remain stuck
in one or other of the stages of development, and
immature, infantile drives will remain in their psyche
and become part of the adult personality. This is called
fixation. If the parents get it right, however, the child
goes through each stage at the appropriate time and
eventually emerges as a mature and well-balanced
adult. This almost never happens.
Your Task:
Toilet training begins at 18 – 36
months
Make a note of the correct order of the
6-puberty the sexual drive
3-6 years gender
identification
psychosexual
stages
development
is dormant (asleep)
At 0-18
months of
a baby
gains
occurs, focus is on the genital
energies go towards
nourishment, from, initially,
using the age
information to help
area
makingyou!
friends
the mother’s breast.
Puberty and beyond –
individuals seek heterosexual
pleasure through intercouse
At 0-18 months a baby gains
nourishment, from, initially,
the mother’s breast.
Toilet training begins at 18 – 36
months
3-6 years gender identification
occurs, focus is on the genital
area
6-puberty the sexual drive
is dormant (asleep)
energies go towards
making friends
Puberty and beyond –
individuals seek
heterosexual pleasure
through intercouse
A useful mnemonic...
Old Age
Pensioners
Love
Gardening
Learning Objectives
• ALL will know the five stages of
psychosexual development
• MOST will be able to analyse the result of
fixations at a stage and the impact that
this has on adult personality
• SOME will construct the basis for the A01
component of an essay on the
psychodynamic approach
Thinking further...the impact on adult
personality
• Smoking, chewing pens & fingernails etc. Overeating &
drinking. Sarcasm and verbal hostility.
• Fixation does not happen in this stage.
• Obsessive tidiness, neatness. Intolerance, meanness
• Sloppiness, disorganization, untidiness. Defiance, recklessness
and excessive generosity.
• Men: feelings of anxiety and guilt about sex. Fear of
castration. Possibly vanity, self obsession. Women: feelings of
inferiority and envy.
• Fixation at this stage is what should happen, and indicates a
well-adjusted adult.
Use page 15 of your book to decide
which behaviours come from fixation at
which stage and WHY
Learning Objectives
• ALL will know the five stages of
psychosexual development
• MOST will be able to analyse the result
of fixations at a stage and the impact
that this has on adult personality
• SOME will construct the basis for the A01
component of an essay on the
psychodynamic approach
Extension:
are
there
any
A02
points
you
A01: Where are we up to so far?
can include yet?
• Remember your A01 component should be
structured around the KEY ASSUMPTIONS
• This lesson: ‘Childhood experiences determine
adult personality’
• Last lesson: ‘Unconscious processes of which we
are unaware, determine our behaviour’ and
‘Personality has three parts: the id, ego and
superego’
• Your task is to ‘pad out’ these key assumptions
using 2-3 sentences per assumption
Sum up your learning in:
3 sentences,
then
Learning
Objectives
3 words
• ALL will know the five stages of
psychosexual development
• MOST will be able to analyse the result
of fixations at a stage and the impact
that this has on adult personality
• SOME will construct the basis for the A01
component of an essay on the
psychodynamic approach
Next lesson(s)...
• Oedipus and Electra complexes
• Little Hans case study
• Evaluation
• ONE MORE APPROACH TO COMPLETE AFTER
HALF TERM