Pleasure Pleasure

Stage Age + Fixation1 -Fixation

point activity
Oral dependence- Oral aggression-
Oral 0-1.5 mouth Sucking etc. accepting, takers, sarcastic, active,
talkative, gullible givers
Anal retention- OC, Anal expulsion-
“potty
Anal 1.5-3 anus orderly, stingy, stick to disorderly,
training”2
schedule extravagant
Phallic ?????- flirty,
Auto- Phallic ?????- vanity,
Phallic3 3-5 genitalia unstable
eroticism narcissism, show-off
relationships
Latency 5-11 Not Applicable4

Intimate
Sexual >12 genitalia None- because it is the ideal fixation.
relationships
Personality- unique characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting of an individual
1. Psychoanalytic- developed by Sigmund Freud and focus is on the unconscious

Personality Structures
ID EGO SUPEREGO
Permissive of pleasure. Compromise between the two. Restrictive of ‘bad’ through Dilemma in choosing which structure to obey leads to anxiety/ neuroticism. This anxiety gives birth to defense
Innate within us and works Learned esp. through the anal guilt, that which is produced mechanisms.
through the pleasure stage. Works under the reality when id is allowed, and Types:
principle- that which is the principle- that which is conscience, the 1. Rationalization- assigns a socially acceptable reason that caused the behavior.
drive to achieving pleasure, possible and probable should manifestation of guilt,. 2. Projection- passes the unacceptable behavior to another person.
even at the expense of be done. Delays pleasure for 3. Reaction Formulation- do an acceptable behavior to counter the unacceptable one.
others and disregarding this safety 4. Repression- put the memory of that unacceptable behavior in the unconscious.
expense 5. Regression- going back to an earlier stage of dev’t. through behavior.
6. Displacement- using the impulse to another weaker individual.
7. Compensation- Compensate for that bad aspect by excelling in another aspect.
8. Sublimation- rechanneling the libido (energy) to other channels.
9. Denial- refuse to acknowledge it.

1
Fixation is overconsumption/under-consumption of libido (sexual energy) in a certain stage.
2
It is learning how do discipline oneself in excreting and holding in faecal matter.
3
In this stage, sensations differ among sexes. Among males, castration anxiety is experienced, after seeing girls without penises and develops Oedipus complex, which is falling in love with the female parent.
This causes hate of the father but this is resolved by identifying with the father, which is developing the identity of a “man”. Among females, penis envy is experienced, after seeing boys with penises. This causes
them to hate their mothers, who hey blame for not protecting them from castration. They develop the Electra complex and try to appease their father by identifying with their mothers, developing their identity
as a “woman”.
4
In the latency period, the libido is at rest because the age in this period is consumed by basic academic pursuits.