Freud: Personality and

Fixations

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use the worksheet on personality factors Add

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Factors

Personality: Awareness The Conscious Mind:

The Preconscious Mind:

The Subconscious Mind

Components of Personality The Well Bred Spinster

Nervous Banker Referee

Ego The Sex Crazed Monkey

Energy and Cathexis Object:

Ego:

Anti

Do Now: Think about the levels of personality and

where we get our behavior. Jazzmyn: “once you control the

subconscious, you are controlled entirely.” Think about something you do, a good or a

bad aspect of your personality: what is it, why do you do it, where does the behavior come from?

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Psychosexual Stage TheoryFreud says: Sexuality

begins at a young age develops through various fixations

If we get screwed up at one of these stages: we can be trapped by them cope by using various defense mechanisms.

The stages:1. Oral

2. Anal

3. Phallic

4. Latency

5. Genital

Oral Fixation Oral receptive personality:

Oral aggressive personality:

Anal Fixation Anal Retentive:

Anal Expulsive:

Phallic Fixation Oedipus Complex

Electra Conflict

Castration anxiety

Penis Envy

Is there a psychologist in the

room?Let’s apply the skills learned and

psychoanalyze the following people.

Le Tigre What is his deal? What Freudian factors

influence his personality and actions?

Where are the problems in his psycho-sexual stage?

Oh, Lord… How many issues

does SHE have? What governs her

personality? In which psychosexual

stage is she “stuck”? What are her

fixations? EXPLAIN!

What about this situation? Look at him through a

Freudian Lens Fixations?

Personality? What are his defense

mechanisms? Meaning: what does he do to compensate for his fixations?

Questions???

Personal Psycho analysis: Think about what you struggle with in your

own life What mostly governs your personality? Where have you been fixated?

Write down these responses Finish for homework