Frued and Eriksons Theory
Frued and Eriksons Theory
Frued and Eriksons Theory
ERIKSON'S
THEORY
SIGMUND FREUD
PSYCHOANALYTIC
Our personalities have beliefs, urges, drives, and instincts that we are all not aware of.
LIBIDO
People are born with biological-drives that must be redacted as to live society.
BIOLOGICAL DRIVES- purposes is to keep us alive and out of danger.
2. Anal (12-18 months to 3 years). Child derives sensual gratification from withholding and
expelling faces. Zone of gratification is anal region, and toilet training is important activity.
3. Phallic (3 to 6 years). Child becomes attached to the parent of the other sex and later
identifies with same-se parent.
4. Latency (6 year to puberty). Time of relative calm between more turbulent stages.
Freud's thought that most sexual impulses are repressed during the latent stage, and sexual
energy can be sublimated.
5. Genital (puberty through adulthood). Reemergence of sexual impulses of phallic stage,
channeled into mature adult sexuality.
1. ID
Newborns are governed by the id, which operates under the pleasure principle.
id is the drive to seek immediate satisfaction of its needs and desires.
when infants have to wait to be fed, they begin to see themselves as separate
from the outside world.
2. EGO
The ego, which represents reason, develops gradually during the first year or
so of life and operates under the reality principle.
The ego's aim is to find realistic ways to gratify the id.
3. SUPER EGO
The superego develops during early childhood. it includes the conscience and
incorporates socially approved "should" and "should not" into the child's own
value system.
If its standards are not met, a child may feel guilty and anxious. The ego acts
as a mediator between the impulses of the id and the demands of the
superego.
- He was a German Developmental Psychologist and Psychoanalyst known for his theory on
Psychological Development of Human beings.
- Professor of Harvard
- Ranked as the 12th most cited psychologist of the 20th Century
- Modified and extended the Freudian Theory that emphasize the influence of society on the
developing personality
- Applied his own theory through psychohistories of Martin Luther and Mahatma Gandhi.
PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Is refer to the long term changes in relationship and interaction involving self,peer,
and family.
Erikson emphasized that the ego makes positive contributions to the development by
mastering attitudes, ideas, and skills at each stage of development.
- As infants, we depends on our caregiver to provide for our basic needs and develop
trust when these needs met. Otherwise we may grow up to be suspicious and
mistrustful.
- Child developed a balance independence and self- sufficiency over shame and doubt.
-ages 6-12 years,This is the stage when the child peer group will gain greater
significance and will become a major source of the child's self esteem. The child now
feels the need to win approval by demonstrating specific competencies that are valued
by society and begin to develop a sense of pride in their accomplishment. If children
are encouraged and reinforced for their iniative they begin to feel confident in their
ability to achieve goals .
-Adolescent must determine own sense of self (“Who am I?”) or experience confusion
about roles.