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Lecture Notes 21/11/13
Psychoanalytic Theory
1) Dynamism: constantly changing, personality driven, imbedded in our everyday
language
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Personality
constructed in the unconscious mind
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The pressure principle
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6) Defence mechanisms: Repression of memories into unconsciousness; projection by
denying self gratification and projecting them on someone else; sublimation through
diverting energy into another outlet; rationalisation by justifying actions through
reasoning; conversion as a physical manifestation of psychological condition
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Ego need to mediate between conflict between id
and super-ego
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Psychosexual stages
1) Freud says we must pass through each stage to reach an ideal personality type
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3) Anal: Fixated on letting go (mean), fixated on withholding (controlling)
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Girls jealous of not having a
penis, this changes later in life when women feel ready to have children
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Psychoanalytic critique
1) deemphasis the role of sex
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3) Feminist: psychoanalysis looked into gender as a social construction and the social
power of phallic symbol
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2) Maternal deprivation: theory had a massive impact
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3) Separation: compensated by substitute family figures
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5) Political agenda of getting women back in the home because the men were back from
war and usual gender roles needed to be resumed
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2) Avoidance: anxious, insecure attachment type
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4) Ambivalent: distressed
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6) Theory is still used today to test attachment
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This is problematic
because childrearing is dependent on practices of specific cultures
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9) Lifespan attachment: child thinking abstractly
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This theory recognised attachment as something progressing
into adulthood