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The psychodynamic theory, according to Freud, explains gender development through unconscious desires and anxieties during the phallic stage. Children resolve these feelings by identifying with the same-sex parent, which helps them adopt their gender identity. This process excludes the detailed complexes involved.

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Outline the psychodynamic theory of gender development

not including the 2 complexes

  • in the phallic stage (3rd stage), Freud claimed that the child unconsciously sexually desires the opposite-sex parent and is jealous of the same-sex parent

  • in order to deal with these feelings and the anxiety they produce, the child starts to behave like the same-sex parent - called identification

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Outline the psychodynamic theory of gender development

not including the 2 complexes

  • in the phallic stage (3rd stage), Freud claimed that the child unconsciously sexually desires the opposite-sex p...

Describe the Oedipus complex

  • when a boy is unconsciously attracted to his mother and jealous of his father

  • Describe the Electra complex

    • when a girl in unconsciously attracted to her father and is jealous and resentful of her mother

    Outline a study that supports the psychodynamic theory of gender development

    Freud - Little Hans
    Aim: To investigate Little Hans’s phobia
    Method: At the age of 4, Little Hans developed a phob...

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Psychology GCSE: Sex and Gender
TermDefinition

Outline the psychodynamic theory of gender development

not including the 2 complexes

  • in the phallic stage (3rd stage), Freud claimed that the child unconsciously sexually desires the opposite-sex parent and is jealous of the same-sex parent

  • in order to deal with these feelings and the anxiety they produce, the child starts to behave like the same-sex parent - called identification

Describe the Oedipus complex

  • when a boy is unconsciously attracted to his mother and jealous of his father

  • scared his father will castrate him when he finds out his feelings

  • to resolve the conflicting feelings, he gives up his feelings towards his mother and identifies with his father

  • begins to behave like his father and adopts a masculine gender

Describe the Electra complex

  • when a girl in unconsciously attracted to her father and is jealous and resentful of her mother

  • worried that her mother will find out the feelings she has for her father

  • according to Freud, the girl believes she has already been castrated so she is not as fearful as the boy

  • due to the conflicting feeling she is feeling for her father and the fear of losing her mother’s love she identifies with her mother, adopting a feminine identity

Outline a study that supports the psychodynamic theory of gender development

Freud - Little Hans
Aim: To investigate Little Hans’s phobia
Method: At the age of 4, Little Hans developed a phobia of horses. He was frightened that a horse might bite him or fall down. He was particularly afraid of large white horses with black harnesses. Little Hans’s dad wrote to Freud and Freud analysed the information.
Results: Freud claimed Little Hans unconsciously sexually desired his mother and saw his father as a rival and feared castration. He displaced this fear of his father onto horses. The horse represented his father who had a black beard. His fear of being bitten by the horse represented his fear of castration. The horse falling down represented his unconscious desire to see his father dead.
Conclusion: This supports Freud’s ideas about the Oedipus complex as he claimed Little Hans was experiencing it.