• Castration anxiety is an overwhelming fear of damage to, or loss of, the penis-a derivative of Sigmund Freud's theory of the castration complex, one of his earliest psychoanalytic theories. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Freud's theory, it is the child's perception of anatomical difference (the possession of a penis) that induces castration anxiety as a result of an assumed paternal threat made in response to their sexual proclivities. (wikipedia.org)
  • While Freud's theories have been critiqued and evolved over time, they remain a cornerstone of psychoanalytic thought. (marriage.com)
  • According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, successful resolution occurs when the child identifies with the same-sex parent, thereby developing a mature sexual role and identity. (marriage.com)
  • While many of Freud's ideas have fallen out of favor or been modified by other analysts, and modern advances in the field of psychology have shown flaws in some of his theories, his work remains influential in clinical approaches, and in the humanities and social sciences. (crystalinks.com)
  • Freud's theory of psychoanalytic development is based on the idea that human behavior is driven by unconscious desires and conflicts. (kollec.life)
  • Erikson locates social and cultural aspects in Freud's biological and sexual theory. (kollec.life)
  • Let us be clear: our aim is not to retrace Anna Freud's life in detail or review her theories, but to suggest a link between biography and theory, a link that laid the foundations for the elaboration of a metapsychology of adolescence. (symbiosisonlinepublishing.com)
  • Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theories have largely contributed to psychoanalysis. (studiousguy.com)
  • Freud's psychoanalytic theories are based on his belief that the type of personality that an individual acquires in his/her adulthood is determined by his/her childhood experiences, and any disruptions or traumas in childhood may result in negative personality traits in adulthood. (studiousguy.com)
  • This research served as an important tool in the development of Freud's psychoanalytic theories. (studiousguy.com)
  • The penis, the mother, the father - they diagnose Freud's obsession with oneness and make the case for this tendency being the downfall of his theories. (xenogothic.com)
  • This is to say that whilst Freud's theories may be uncomfortably gendered, the mechanisms being described are, as far as he is concerned, universal. (xenogothic.com)
  • So, in declaring Freud's use of penis-envy or castration-anxiety as essentialised and misogynistic forms within his thought, is only to reduce them to a function that he himself never sought. (xenogothic.com)
  • The irony is that the apparent failure of Freud's theories also goes some way towards vindicating them. (xenogothic.com)
  • This concept was first introduced by Sigmund Freud in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) and it refers to the pleasure gained from looking as well as to the pleasure gained from being looked at, [5] two fundamental human drives in Freud's view. (wikipedia.org)
  • Freud regarded castration anxiety as a universal human experience. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although typically associated with males, castration anxiety is thought to be experienced, in differing ways, by both sexes. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the literal sense, castration anxiety refers to a child's fear of having their genitalia disfigured or removed as punishment for Oedipal desire. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Freudian psychoanalysis, castration anxiety (Kastrationsangst) refers to an unconscious fear of penile loss that originates during the phallic stage of psychosexual development and continues into adulthood. (wikipedia.org)
  • Castration anxiety can also refer to being castrated symbolically. (wikipedia.org)
  • Symbolic castration anxiety refers to the fear of being degraded, dominated or made insignificant, usually an irrational fear where the person will go to extreme lengths to save their pride and/or perceives trivial things as being degrading making their anxiety restrictive and sometimes damaging. (wikipedia.org)
  • This can also tie in with literal castration anxiety in fearing the loss of virility or sexual dominance. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to Freudian psychoanalysis, castration anxiety can be completely overwhelming to the individual, often breaching other aspects of his or her life. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] A link has been found between castration anxiety and fear of death. (wikipedia.org)
  • Essentially, castration anxiety can lead to a fear of death, and a feeling of loss of control over one's life. (wikipedia.org)
  • This will lead to the fear associated with bodily injury in castration anxiety, which can then lead to the fear of dying or being killed. (wikipedia.org)
  • Themes central to castration anxiety that feature prominently in circumcision include pain, fear, loss of control (with the child's forced restraint, and in the psychological effects of the event, which may include sensation seeking, and lower emotional stability) and the perception that the event is a form of punishment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Freud proposed that boys resolve this complex through castration anxiety, fearing that their father will punish them for their feelings towards their mother. (marriage.com)
  • For boys, this is often achieved through overcoming castration anxiety, a fear that their father will punish them for their feelings towards their mother. (marriage.com)
  • Nasio makes the provocative claim that the entirety of the psychoanalytical corpus, all of its concepts, including repression, sublimation, the theory of the drives, desire, as well as the phantasm of the phallus and castration anxiety, revolves around the idea that the child desires the parents. (sunypress.edu)
  • A man who pleads for castration and amputation of his penis may arouse, on an unconscious level, significant anxiety in male psychiatrists. (health.am)
  • In modern psychoanalytic theory, castration anxiety is not about losing one's penis. (metafilter.com)
  • Therein lies the castration anxiety. (metafilter.com)
  • In my personal theory, I believe that men subconsciously think during a moment of anxiety that they have lost their penis already, and need to be reminded that it is there. (metafilter.com)
  • Kekhawatiran ini dinamakan castration anxiety atau kecemasan kastrasi. (insanayu.com)
  • Freud bilang resolusi Oedipal Complex pada anak laki-laki dengan mengatasi castration anxiety -nya sangat penting bagi perkembangannya sebagai bagian dari identitas gender dan superegonya. (insanayu.com)
  • In a corollary, fear of the father's rage, in retaliation for oedipal desires, leads a boy to escape castration anxiety by withdrawing from women and thus competition with the father. (priory.com)
  • A complementary theory to castration anxiety is separation anxiety which is suffered and defended against in childhood. (artbrain.org)
  • he understands its fundamental function is still to alleviate castration anxiety. (artbrain.org)
  • His theories involve the topographic model of the mind, structural model of personality, defence mechanisms to deal with anxiety, psychosexual stages of development, and psychoanalytic techniques. (studiousguy.com)
  • The Oedipus Complex is a psychoanalytic theory formulated by Sigmund Freud, which posits that during a specific stage of psychosexual development, typically around the ages of 3 to 6, a child experiences subconscious sexual desires for the opposite-sex parent and feelings of rivalry with the same-sex parent. (marriage.com)
  • Their many books include translations of Nasio's Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan and The Book of Love and Pain: Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan , both also published by SUNY Press. (sunypress.edu)
  • Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry. (crystalinks.com)
  • Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression, and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient, technically referred to as an "analysand", and a psychoanalyst. (crystalinks.com)
  • Freud redefined sexual desire as the primary motivational energy of human life, developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association, created the theory of transference in the therapeutic relationship, and interpreted dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. (crystalinks.com)
  • Freud has been influential in two related but distinct ways: he simultaneously developed a theory of the human mind's organization and internal operations and a theory that human behavior both conditions and results from how the mind is organized. (crystalinks.com)
  • Shortly after his marriage in 1886 - which was extremely happy, and gave Freud six children, the youngest of whom, Anna, was herself to become a distinguished psychoanalyst - Freud set up a private practice in the treatment of psychological disorders, which gave him much of the clinical material on which he based his theories and his pioneering techniques. (crystalinks.com)
  • It was the step that came before the basic psychoanalytic technique called free association (invented by Freud). (exploringyourmind.com)
  • Here Freud talks about his theory of human sexuality, which focused especially on childhood. (exploringyourmind.com)
  • Freud, along with his followers, established the 'International Psychoanalytic Association' in 1910. (studiousguy.com)
  • She emphasises the ways in which his writings, which wriggle around and find themselves adapted and expanded through his life, are more often essentialised in a cascade of interpretative readings by others, and through which Freud himself is reduced by his own theories. (xenogothic.com)
  • Her article, which was influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan , is one of the first major essays that helped shift the orientation of film theory towards a psychoanalytic framework . (wikipedia.org)
  • Defying contemporary claims of an alleged 'death of psychoanalysis,' and in contrast with recent attempts to minimize the relevance of Oedipus for the psyche, Nasio approaches Oedipus as a legend that helps to make sense of the origins of sexual identity and neurotic suffering. (sunypress.edu)
  • Much has been said and written about her close ties with her father and the contradictions of Annafreudian theory, but her historical input in the construction of a theoretical corpus on adolescence, once the "Cinderella of psychoanalysis" [15], has largely been forgotten. (symbiosisonlinepublishing.com)
  • James W. Anderson is the Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, past President of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society and Editor of the Annual of Psychoanalysis . (psychohistory.us)
  • Psychoanalysis is a fascinating field: its theories and hypotheses are just captivating. (exploringyourmind.com)
  • Psychoanalysis consists of various psychological therapies and theories that help in the treatment of various psychological disorders. (studiousguy.com)
  • The three addresses provide us with an opportunity to see how Lacan sketches a theory of subjectivity that would distinguish psychoanalysis from a psychology but at the same time retain an adherence to the essence of the Freudian discovery. (lacanonline.com)
  • Mulvey's contribution, however, inaugurated the intersection of film theory , psychoanalysis and feminism . (wikipedia.org)
  • [3] Prior to Mulvey, film theorists such as Jean-Louis Baudry and Christian Metz used psychoanalytic ideas in their theoretical accounts of the cinema. (wikipedia.org)
  • The phallic mother childish fantasy shows denial's action in maintaining irrational beliefs and their effects on the sense of reality. (bvsalud.org)
  • According to Freudian theory, successfully resolving the complex helps in the internalization of societal norms and roles related to one's gender. (marriage.com)
  • Psychoanalytic theory often refers to one's "highly prized sexual organs" (Brenner 1974) and the cathexis of libidinal energy. (health.am)
  • Ego integrity versus despair: This occurs in late adulthood and is characterized by acceptance of one's life and a sense of peace and fulfillment. (kollec.life)
  • Unfortunately, as in most studies influenced by Freudian theory, many other facts of Bellmar's life, especially wider sociological ones, are somewhat disregarded as possible explanations or influences. (blogspot.com)
  • Freudian theory in the scholarly world at large is in dramatic decline. (blogspot.com)
  • She quotes one of Donald Kuspit's alternative, post-Freudian yet still psychoanalytic definitions in her discussion of fetishism. (blogspot.com)
  • Psychodynamic theories of homosexual causation were challenged on several points. (priory.com)
  • The term " symbolic " appears in adjectival form in Lacan's earliest psychoanalytic writings. (nosubject.com)
  • The subject gains access to the symbolic , to a name and a lineage, but does so at the cost of a symbolic castration . (nosubject.com)
  • Any aspect of the psychoanalytic experience which has a linguistic structure thus pertains to the symbolic order . (nosubject.com)
  • According to Lacan's theory, identity is self-delusional and based on a false premise. (eveyyu.com)
  • Grosz 1990: 289) In Lacan's theory, the "mirror stage" is the point of the origin of the ego. (eveyyu.com)
  • Denial defends narcissism against castration threat, which is not restricted to the loss of genitals, but evokes several other narcissistic wounds. (bvsalud.org)
  • The term refers to the fear of emasculation in both a literal and metaphorical sense. (wikipedia.org)
  • The place here refers to the context, specifically the refusal of the psychoanalytic authorities to grant Lacan and his followers affiliation - and by extension the authority to train analysts - an 'excommunication' to which Lacan reacted by forming his own school in the mid-sixties. (lacanonline.com)
  • In boys, the Oedipus Complex manifests as a desire for the mother and a sense of competition with the father. (marriage.com)
  • Although his psychoanalytic theories have been criticized by many, it remains as one of the most influential theories in psychology. (studiousguy.com)
  • Mulvey is best known for her essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", written in 1973 and published in 1975 in the influential British film theory journal Screen . (wikipedia.org)
  • In psychoanalytic theory, a girl's sexual attraction to and intense love for her father. (insanayu.com)
  • Mulvey suggests two distinct modes of the male gaze of this era: "voyeuristic" (i.e., seeing woman as image "to be looked at") and "fetishistic" (i.e., seeing woman as a substitute for "the lack", the underlying psychoanalytic fear of castration ). (wikipedia.org)
  • While both theories focus on the importance of the unconscious mind and how it shapes our behavior and personality, they differ in their approach and the specific developmental stages they propose. (kollec.life)
  • Our sexual being is intricately intertwined with how we affirm or disrupt our sense of self during early developmental stages. (classwithmason.com)
  • The principle of Occam's Razor raises doubt that both theories can be valid, which would imply that ordinary sex-typed gender development requires a knife-edged balance between maternal and paternal influence. (priory.com)
  • While your clothing may not be appropriate for the situation, your contribution to such basic decisions affects your sense of independence. (kollec.life)
  • During the history of film, there have been five main psychoanalytical approaches in film criticism and theory. (literariness.org)
  • Perhaps in response, psychoanalytic thought seems to have erected its last line of defence in the quasi-scientific domain of art and literary theory, fields which seldom demand rigorous concrete or logical proof. (blogspot.com)
  • Although human sexual orientation and gender identification represent distinct phenomena and are considered largely orthogonal, they are intricately intertwined in medical theory and social consequence. (priory.com)
  • The fourth stage is the latent stage, which occurs during school age and is characterized by a focus on social relationships and the development of a sense of self. (kollec.life)
  • Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt: This occurs during the first few years of life and is characterized by the child's growing sense of independence and development of self-control. (kollec.life)
  • Identity versus role confusion: Occurs during adolescence and is characterized by the development of a sense of self and the exploration of different roles and identities. (kollec.life)
  • Intimacy vs. Isolation: This occurs during young adulthood and is characterized by the development of intimate relationships and a sense of belonging. (kollec.life)
  • Generativity vs. stagnation: This occurs during midlife and is characterized by a desire to contribute to the next generation and a sense of purpose in life. (kollec.life)
  • Since Revolution in Poetic Language (1974/1984), Kristeva has been concerned to elaborate a theory of the speaking subject that addresses the symbolization of nonverbal experiences (Smith 1998). (being-here.net)
  • Your guests would rather construct elaborate theories about the pathology of climate sceptics than speak to them. (climate-resistance.org)
  • In children, they see that the father has one and the mother does not, and this can sometimes lead to the fear in children that they might somehow lose theirs through castration Boeree, 2009. (kollec.life)
  • The third stage of development in psychoanalytic theory, around 3 to 6 years of age, during which, for boys, the pleasure zone is the penis and sexual feelings arise toward the mother and, for girls, sexual feelings arise toward the father. (insanayu.com)
  • Stoller and Green, of UCLA, applied a similar theory to male-to-female transsexualism with the axiom, 'too much mother made possible by too little father' (Stoller, 1968, p. 264). (priory.com)
  • His latest book is The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy . (yassinhs.com)
  • Both developed theories of human development that had a lasting impact on the field and continue to be studied and applied today. (kollec.life)
  • Erikson's theory of psychosocial development is based on the idea that human development is a series of stages characterized by a specific conflict that must be resolved. (kollec.life)
  • The child has bodily contacts with this human environment, which take on a sense of emotional and ideational accord or discord in her relation with others according to the speech or the reactions of others. (journal-psychoanalysis.eu)
  • He developed a psychoanalytic theory to explain human behavior based on his case studies and self-analysis. (psychologic.science)
  • In 1901, he published one of his popular books, "The Interpretation of Dreams," which involves various psychoanalytic techniques such as free association and dream analysis. (studiousguy.com)
  • The psychoanalytic model which drew inspiration from the figure of Richard III gives us the image of a bitter, angry, vindictive neurotic. (dsq-sds.org)
  • However, Erikson's theory emphasizes the importance of social and cultural influences on development, as well as the influence of our relationships with others. (kollec.life)
  • When through her psychological development and her growth, the child attains the age of expressing emotions to communicate with another, she does so from what she senses to have value for those who surround her. (journal-psychoanalysis.eu)
  • Mulvey's essay is brilliant but more useful today as a historic landmark of early 70s feminist film theory than as a heuristic for discerning power frameworks. (metafilter.com)
  • This paper explores denial's manifestation in everyday life and in psychic illnesses, and attests the importance of that concept in the expansion of psychoanalytic theory and clinic. (bvsalud.org)
  • 1 The concept of an apparatus is close to the concept of a machine in the theory of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. (newiseverything.com)
  • Here, I need to introduce the psychoanalytic concept of "ego", and its constructing stage: the "mirror phase (or stage)", for it is central to the creation of doppelganger. (eveyyu.com)
  • From historical psychoanalytic perspectives to contemporary views, the concept of sexuality has evolved, highlighting its close connection with our identity and sense of self. (classwithmason.com)
  • Using this concept of the signifier, in the second addresses he gives us a straightforward definition of the subject: "The subject is what I define in the strict sense as an effect of the signifier" (p.79). (lacanonline.com)
  • In about 1800, seeking to relate behavior to observable aspects of physical makeup, Gall and Spurzheim related bumps and depressions on the skull to personality traits in their discredited theory of phrenology, and a half century ago, psychologist and physician William Sheldon related physique to temperament. (psychologic.science)
  • She was formerly an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychoanalytic Studies at University College London, and a member of teaching staff at the Tavistock Clinic. (psychohistory.us)
  • This article analyzes the unconscious family transmissions and their relationship with the simultaneous admission and nonadmission of castration. (bvsalud.org)
  • The superego, a significant component of psychoanalytic theory, represents the social values and taboos that we internalize, consciously or unconsciously, and perceive as our sense of right and wrong. (classwithmason.com)
  • By contrast, the two volumes of Holmes's more recent biography of Coleridge, especially the second volume, seem to Barrell to be the story of a " vie privĂ©e ," and to eschew a "more general sense of cultural or social or political history. (nybooks.com)
  • Nonetheless, sexual orientation and gender identity share many common elements pursuant to the definition of mental illness, including theories of etiology, social stigma, cross-cultural occurrence, and perceptions of distress, disability, and disadvantage. (priory.com)
  • The sense of self emerges as he or she perceive "it" as a unified "whole", though it is a contrast to the actual experience of the body. (eveyyu.com)
  • But even Class vouchsafes the Cheualry that a Hindu plan must be reworked to acquire a psychoanalytic important world in the humanity before we can understand that the last relationship resists Short, as for instructions that are always Thai. (wmz.com)
  • Rooted in Greek mythology, this complex theory has sparked debates and discussions for over a century. (marriage.com)
  • Another concern is that the theory is based on case studies versus research. (kollec.life)
  • These links between biography and theory gave rise to a movement of conceptualisation making it possible to develop a psychoanalytic metapsychology of adolescence: indeed, emerged such notions as asceticism, intellectualisation in relationship with anorexia and the struggle against the genitalisation of the adolescent body. (symbiosisonlinepublishing.com)
  • In the same period, entrepreneurs like Kellogg offered parents services such as circumcision and castration as a cure and punishment for a wide variety of perceived misbehaviours (such as masturbation). (wikipedia.org)
  • In linguistics this is referred to as the 'shifter', a term that denotes the one communicating a message, corresponding in psychoanalytic vocabulary to the ego. (lacanonline.com)
  • The particulars of psychoanalytic semantics aside, the issue here is that objections to the use of the term schizophrenia seem to treat the term in a way that it was originally coined to resist. (xenogothic.com)
  • The treatments reflected scientific theories of their time about the origins of homosexuality: some were laughable, while others were gruesome. (glreview.org)