Electra complex

The most criticism was toward the phallic stage for the development and observations of the Oedipus complex. Many critics believed that Freud developed this theory of development not forcing constructs upon patients and completely created by Freud himself. Freud soon abandoned this theory in the late 1890s, which is said to been due to the false allegations…

When Kate Morrison was seven years old her parents were shockingly killed in a car accident. Relying on each other and their neighbours, Kate along with her three siblings, Bo, Luke, and Matt are forced to subsist. Now as a twenty six year old biologist attending university in Toronto, Kate is forced to reflect on her childhood as she is about to return to her hometown, Crow Lake. Specifically, Kate contemplates on her relationship with her older brother Matt, who mentored her as a child. This…

Personality development can be explained through a psychoanalytic approach using the theories of Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud was an Austrian physician who treated patients with mental illness. He was a great thinker that developed numerous psychological theories that had their fair share of controversy. Freud believed human behavior was due to the interaction between the id, ego, and superego; the three components of personality. The id is the source of the inherited, instinctual drives known…

The speaker of the poem “Daddy” is dealing with the loss of a father figure in her life, though the sense of victimization through historical holocaust allusions, also a misplaced adoration of the father from Greek mythological allusions, and how the vampirism shows the speaker's vengefulness of her father. The allusion she uses for the holocaust is referencing the train engine sounds of the Jews being taken to the camps.“ An engine an engine chuffing me off like a Jew” and the concentration…

Oedipus complex is believed to develop during the phallic stage. A scientific definition defines as “ a complex of emotions raised in a young child, especially a boy, by a subconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite gender” (Rather 2011). Electra complex is the equivilent for girls and their psychological development. The theory explains how boys have the fear of castration…

Later, Orestes returns home and finds his sister, Electra pouring ritual libations at their father’s grave. He vows revenge when he discovers his mother killed his father. Orestes fulfills his duty and murders his mom, Clytemnestra. The furies of the underworld are then awoken, and Orestes is taken to…

Trait Theories: The Works of Sigmund Freud in Relation to Criminology Sigmund Freud (Born in 1856 and died in 1939) was a prominent psychologist who conceived and developed the Psychodynamic Theory—Psychoanalytic Theory—which comprises three parts and is predicated on sexuality’s influence on the development of a human being, and the effects of that development on the personality exhibited by adults later in life. The purpose of this essay is to briefly explore the influence of Freud’s…

How humans respond, how humans behave, how humans are interesting to others and how humans are different to others are all influenced by a person’s personality. Personality is the tendencies within a person that influences how they respond to their environment. There are different approaches to personality. One being the nomothetic approach which focuses on identifying the general laws that are put in place for all. The other being idiographic approach that focuses on identifying unique…

developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the mechanisms of repression as well as for elaboration of his theory of…

E)|projection.| 17.|When Professor McKay nervously began teaching a college class for the first time, he overestimated the extent to which his students would notice that he was anxious. His reaction best illustrates:| A)|self-serving bias.| B)|an Electra complex.| C)|the spotlight effect.| D)|reaction formation.| E)|reciprocal…