Question

According to Sigmund Freud, the _____ stage is when experience is dominated by the pleasure, conflict, and frustration associated with the genital region; it is also associated with powerful incestuous feelings of love, hate, jealousy, and conflict.

Answer 1

Answer:

According to Sigmund Freud, in the fallic stage, experience is dominated by the pleasure, conflict, and frustration associated with the genital region; this stage is also associated with powerful incestuous feelings of love, hate, jealousy, and conflict.

Explanation:

Between three and six years, the interests of the child are shifted to a new zone, the genital area. Throughout the phallic stage, children can examine their genitals, show interest in issues related to sexual relations. Although their ideas about adult sexuality are usually vague, erroneous, and very inaccurate, Freud believed that most children understand the essence of sexual relations more clearly than their parents suggest. Based on what they saw on television, on some phrases of their parentsб or on the explanations of other children, they draw a "primary" scene.

The dominant conflict at the phallic stage is what Freud called the Oedipus complex (a similar conflict for girls was called the Electra complex). Freud borrowed a description of this complex from Sophocles’ tragedy, Oedipus the King, in which Oedipus, the king of Thebes, inadvertently killed his father and entered into an incestuous relationship with his mother. When Oedipus realized what a terrible sin he had committed, he blinded himself. Freud regarded tragedy as a symbolic description of the greatest of human conflicts. From his point of view, this myth symbolizes the child's unconscious desire to possess a parent of the opposite sex and at the same time eliminate the parent of the same gender. Moreover, Freud found confirmation of the complex in the kinship and clan relationships that take place in various primitive societies.