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◉ Phallic stage of psychosexual development Answer: The phallic
stage is a stage of psychosexual development during which the
pleasure zone switches to the genitals.
◉ Age range of the phallic stage Answer: The phallic stage typically
occurs between the ages of 3 and 6 years.
◉ Oedipus Complex Answer: The unconscious sexual desires that
boys develop for their mothers during the phallic stage, along with
feelings of rivalry toward their fathers.
◉ Electra Complex Answer: A concept introduced by later
psychoanalysts to describe a similar situation in girls, involving
unconscious sexual attraction to their fathers.
◉ Resolution of the Oedipus Complex Answer: Boys eventually
identify with their fathers out of fear of castration and competition,
leading them to repress their sexual feelings toward their mothers
and develop masculine characteristics.
, ◉ Potential outcomes of a fixation during the phallic stage Answer:
A fixation during the phallic stage can lead to sexual deviancies and
the development of a weak or confused sexual identity, according to
psychoanalysts.
◉ Characteristics of the latency stage Answer: During the latency
stage, sexual urges remain repressed, and children primarily interact
and play with same-sex peers.
◉ Beginning of the genital stage Answer: The genital stage begins at
the onset of puberty (12 years and older), when sexual urges are
once again awakened, and adolescents direct their sexual urges
toward opposite-sex peers.
◉ Sigmund Freud Answer: Revolutionized thinking about mental
health disorders with his groundbreaking theories of personality
structure, levels of awareness, anxiety, defense mechanisms, and
psychosexual development.
◉ Biological treatments Answer: Originally sought by Freud for
psychological disturbances before he focused on psychological
treatments.
◉ Psychoanalysis Answer: Unique in assuming that motivating
forces derive from unconscious mental processes.