The Erotic Life& Libido ( contriversal Idea)
- Libido- sexual desires
- A child has sexual instincts from birth calling it “The pressure principle”.
- “A child has its sexual instincts and activities from the first; it comes into the world with them; and, after an important course of development passing through many stages, they lead to what is known as the normal sexuality of the adult. There is even no difficulty in observing the manifestations of these sexual activities in children; on the contrary, it calls for some skill to overlook them or explain them away”(Freud 2228).
- After babies are born and they start feeling loved, the “normal sexuality” is hetronormative ( getting married and creating babies).
- The five stages happen through (self-pleasure) and through simulation of erotogenic zones. Such as masterbation, sucking of your thumb, back rubs.
The Five Psychosexual Stages of Development
- Oral Stage (0-1 year)
- Centered around babies thumb such as sucking on a pacifier, sucking on the thumb or breast.
- Anal stage (1-3 year)
- Potty training that is harsh can lead to being “anal retentive” (someone who is very OCD)
- “Anal Expulsive”- leads to someone who is messy and rebellious
- Phallic Stage (3-5 or 6 years)
- Discovering body parts of other genders
- Latency Stage (5 or 6 years)
- The libido is is sleep and sexual impulses are repressed
- Gential Stage (6+)
- Final sexual preferences is determined, finding a spouse to make babies
- If not completed correctly, you develop fixation
- Ex: Smoking, biting on nails
- If worst you develop a perversion (“homosexuality” )
- Ex: Abnormal pleasure such as toe sucking, foot feetish
Object Choice, The Oedipus Complex, N Identification
- When children are young, boys want to marry their mothers and kill their fathers and girls want to marry their fathers and kill their mothers (Oedipus Complex).
- As they get older they want to marry someone who is LIKE their parents
- They want to replicate the love of their parents
- New Process of identification happens when they get over the fact that they don’t necessarily want to kill their parents or in other words they don’t hate them anymore. Instead the daughter wants to be more like the mother and the son wants to be more like their father.
- As they grow up they now want the person they marry to be more like the parent they were trying to kill.
The Five Psychosexual Stages of Development
- Oral Stage (0-1 year)
- Centered around babies thumb such as sucking on a pacifier, sucking on the thumb or breast.
- Anal stage (1-3 year)
- Potty training that is harsh can lead to being “anal retentive” (someone who is very OCD)
- “Anal Expulsive”- leads to someone who is messy and rebellious
- Phallic Stage (3-5 or 6 years)
- Discovering body parts of other genders
- Latency Stage (5 or 6 years)
- The libido is is sleep and sexual impulses are repressed
- Gential Stage (6+)
- Final sexual preferences is determined, finding a spouse to make babies
- If not completed correctly, you develop fixation
- Ex: Smoking, biting on nails
- If worst you develop a perversion (“homosexuality” )
- Ex: Abnormal pleasure such as toe sucking, foot feetish
Object Choice, The Oedipus Complex, N Identification
- When children are young, boys want to marry their mothers and kill their fathers and girls want to marry their fathers and kill their mothers (Oedipus Complex).
- As they get older they want to marry someone who is LIKE their parents
- They want to replicate the love of their parents
- New Process of identification happens when they get over the fact that they don’t necessarily want to kill their parents or in other words they don’t hate them anymore. Instead the daughter wants to be more like the mother and the son wants to be more like their father.
- As they grow up they now want the person they marry to be more like the parent they were trying to kill.
