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In classical Freudian psychology the super-ego, "the heir to the Oedipus complex", is formed as the infant boy internalizes the familial rules of his father. In contrast, in the early 1920s, using the term "pre-Oedipal", Otto Rank proposed that a boy's powerful mother was the source of the super-ego, in the course of normal psychosexual ...
Electra complex. In neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) in his Theory of Psychoanalysis, [ 1][ 2] is a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father. In the course of her psychosexual development, the complex is ...
It begins at the age of three and continues until the age of six. Now sensitivity becomes concentrated in the genitals and masturbation (in both sexes) becomes a new source of pleasure. The child becomes aware of anatomical sex differences, which sets in motion the conflict of jealousy and fear which Freud called the Oedipus complex (in boys).
Psychoanalysis[ i] is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques [ ii] that deal in part with the unconscious mind, [ iii] and which together form a method of treatment for mental disorders. The discipline was established in the early 1890s by Sigmund Freud, [ 1] whose work stemmed partly from the clinical work of Josef Breuer and others.
t. e. In psychoanalysis, psychosexual development is a central element of the sexual drive theory. According to Freud, personality develops through a series of childhood stages in which pleasure seeking energies from the child become focused on certain erogenous areas. An erogenous zone is characterized as an area of the body that is ...
Psychoanalysis. In Freudian psychoanalysis, the phallic stage is the third stage of psychosexual development, spanning the ages of three to six years, wherein the infant's libido (desire) centers upon their genitalia as the erogenous zone. When children become aware of their bodies, the bodies of other children, and the bodies of their parents ...
Hamlet and Oedipus. Hamlet and Oedipus is a study of William Shakespeare 's Hamlet in which the title character 's inexplicable behaviours are subjected to investigation along psychoanalytic lines. [1] The study was written by Sigmund Freud 's colleague and biographer Ernest Jones, following on from Freud's own comments on the play, as ...
While during the pre-oedipal stages ambivalent feelings are expressed in a dyadic relationship between the mother and the child, during the oedipal conflict ambivalence is experienced for the first time within a triangular context which involves the child, the mother and the father. In this stage, both the boy and the girl develop negative ...