Journal Entry
DEVELOPMENT OF PATHOPSYCHOLOGY: How you end up with psychological disorder. Everything starts out with libido and everything depends on the strength of your libido/drive. This libidinous drive is what sets the stage for everything else. This tells us whether or not you will end up over‐gratified or under‐gratified.
If you are born with really strong drive states‐‐ then no matter what you are exposed to in reality ‐ there will be nothing that is enough to satisfy you. Insatiable desire for needs. If you are born with relatively week libido ‐ then everything you experience in reality becomes over whelming and stimulating.
Lecture 3 Monday, September 14, 2015 12:25 PM
FREUDIAN THEORY Id, Ego, superego is reducible to DRIVE ‐ Psychosexual urge [mostly in the UNCONSCIOUS] [REALITY DOESN’T MATTER] Ages What is Present: [0‐2] Id. Primary Process Thinking. Non‐Linear, Irrational. Need to satisfy the LIBIDO. Pleasure Principle
ORAL STAGE: Libidinous urge in mouth. Infant sucks, bites, runs tongue. Etc. Near end: teething ‐hurts and feels good in some way. Experimentation with pain inflicting actions such as biting. Taking in and holding on.
[2‐3] ANAL STAGE: Libido migrates to the anal cavity. There's pleasure with excreting. About the build up of tension letting things go. A battle with someone or something ‐ a battle you will lose. What is this battle? The idea of potty training. You cannot just walk around and defecate where you please. You learn to adapt to the reactions of those around you. Learn the regulation of this very powerful urge. By the end of the anal stage you acquire the EGO. This is the mediator that allows you to have some capacity to perceive the pressures of external reality. Learn the capacity to engage with reality. Engage in SECONDARY PROCESS THINKING. You have the capacity to grasp: THIS IS NOT A TOILET THIS IS A CHAIR SO LET ME WAIT UNTIL I’m ON A TOILET. Linear thinking.
[3‐5] PHALLIC STAGE. Libido migrates to the genital area. (NOT GENITAL STAGE) This is the case that libido is migrating from the back to the front. Freud develops separate theories for boy and girl. Development of superego. All development stops at the age of 5.
BOYS: Boy becomes aware of his penis. He starts to learn about his organ. He is proud of his little guy lol. Around that same moment he plays around with his appendage it is AS IF this little boy looks over at a naked girl and goes "OMG what happened to her?! There's nothing there. It's gone?!"…. "What could happen to me?! Is it possible for me not to have a penis?!" He is wanting to possess his mother sexually. He wants to have her to himself to be able to have sexual intercourse with his mother and is having the urge towards that. BUT ‐ because this kid has already developed an ego and has some capacity to detect reality as minimal as it is understand that there are big men the size of his mother and that he really can't do things. This adult male present in mothers life will be pretty pissed off if he finds out that he wants to possess his mother. This male figure can hurt him through the form of CASTRATION. ‐‐> CASTRATION ANXIETY. This anxiety is so huge that this kids undergoes a mental distortion of what his urges are and finds a way to identify with this scary person in order to become similar to this adult male then in principle he can become the kind of person who can in principle copulate with someone like his mother. OEDIPUS COMPLEX. This leads to the development of the SUPEREGO. = EGO IDEALS, Conscience.‐> Seeking perfection. Defensive process through which a Superego develops: Identification with the Aggressor GIRLS: She assumed that her own body was not the natural state of affair. Symbolically: amazed by the male genitals. Upset with her own genitals. Feels defaced, harmed, ugly. She desires to have his penis. Who took her penis? The mother. Mother chopped it off already. Why? Revenge against her because she wanted to possess her father or adult male sexually so that she can possess a penis in that way. Wants to be impregnated and in such a way to have a boy. In that way she has her own penis indirectly. This is called: Penis Envy. Electra complex. Identifies with her mom and takes on her characteristics and so develops her SUPEREGO.
Girls have an inherent masochism. Super ego is weaker. Women are ultimately less moral and ethical. Less driven by conscience than boys and men.
OVER/UNDER Gratification
Conflict/Profound Strong FIXATION
Conflict/Not Profound Partial FIXATION
REGRESSION