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Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Theory (Part 2). Conflict, repression, and unconscious motivation. Psychoanalysis – the study of personality from the viewpoint of conflict Ego tries desperately to cope with conflict and the anxiety it generates Does this primarily through repression
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Conflict, repression, and unconscious motivation • Psychoanalysis – the study of personality from the viewpoint of conflict • Ego tries desperately to cope with conflict and the anxiety it generates • Does this primarily through repression • Fixation can occur and manifest as symbolic behavior
Psychosexual stages of development • Oral stage (birth – 2 years) • Anal stage (2 – 4 years) • Phallic stage (4 – 6 years) • Oedipus complex • Latency stage (6 years – onset of puberty) • Genital stage (puberty – adulthood)
Adjustment Problems Based on Fixations at Psychosexual Stages