Defense Mechanisms, Stages of Dev, FAT, Ideologies

• repression most basic def mech, when ego is threatened by undesirable id impulses, it protecc by repressing them; forces threatning feelings into the unconscious
• defense mechanisms can lead to compulsive, repetitive, and neurotic behavior
• repression

  first may remain unchanged

  second force their way into consciousness in an unaltered form

  third displaced or disguised froms; i.e. physical (impotency by sexual guilt), dreams slips of the tongue one of the other def mech
• reaction formation adopting disguise opposite its original form
• projection reduce anxiety by attributing unwanted impulse to an external obj usually another person
• sublimation repression of the genital aim of Eros by substituting cultural or social aim (productive outlet)
• displacement people can redirect their unacceptable urges onto a variety of people or objects so that the original impulse is disguised or concealed
• regression reverting to an earlier stage
• OAPLG Psychosexual Stages of Dev

  oral (0-1) anal (1-3) phallic (3-6) latent (6-Pub) genital (Pub-adult)
• oral-receptive phase infants feel no ambivalence toward pleasurable obj, minimum frustration and anxiety
• oral phase mouth first organ to provide infant w pleasure
• oral-sadistic period when they have teeth; respond by biting, cooing closing their mouth, smiling and crying
• thumb sucking 1st autoerotic exp satisfies sexual but not nutritional needs
• anal phase aggressive drive, second year anus emerges as a sexually pleasurable zone
• anal phase is derived through aggresive behavior and through excretory function. Called it sadistic-anal phase or the anal phase of devv
• anal phase subphases early anal and late anal
• early anal children revcieve satisfaction by destroying or losing objs, children often behave aggresively toward their parents for frustrating them with toilet training
• late anal they take friendly interest toward their feces, from erotic pleasure of defecating
• children will present their feces as a valued prize

  if behavior is accepted by parents likely grow into generous and magnanimous adults

  if rejected they may withold feces until pressure becomes painful and erotically stimulating
• active attitude charac by masculine qualitites of dominance and sadism (anal phase)
• phallic phase 3-4 genital area becomes leading erogenous zone
• masturbation nrealy universal, parents repress their conscious desire to masturbate by the time their phaliic ends
• Male Oedipus Complex boy devs an identification w father, sees father rival for mothers love
• Castration anxiety is a psychoanalytic concept introduced by Sigmund Freud to describe a boy's fear of loss of or damage to the genital organ as punishment for incestuous wishes toward the mother and murderous fantasies toward the rival father.
• penis envy realizing boys have something they dont have, envious of an appendage
• Latency 4/5 year until puberty parents attempts to punish or discourage sexual activity if suppressed will direct their psychic energy toward school, friendships hobbies and other nonsexual activities
• maturity alluded not fully conceptualized , seldom happens because to many people dev pathological disorders or neurotic predispositions
• in maturity consciousness would play a more important role in behavior of mature people
• Freud's early therapeutic technique extracting repressed childhood memories
• later techniques uncover repressed memories through free association and dream analysis
• free association verbalize every thought that comes through their mind
• transference strong sexual or aggresive feelings, positive or negative patients dev toward theri analyst during course of treatment
• positive transference permits patients to more or less relive childhood exp within nonthreatening climate of the analytic treatment
• negative transference fomr of hostility must be recognized by the therapist and explained to patients so that they can overcome any resistance to treatment
• dream analysis transform manifest content of dreams to the more important latent content
• manifest content surface meaning conscious description given by the dreamer
• latent content unconscious material
• Freudian Slips not chance accidents but reveal a persons unconscious intentions
• frequent criticism did not understand women strongly oriented toward men
• F theory is average in its ability to generate research