Freudian Characterology: A Personality Diagnosis with Significant Developmental Implications
Freud places so much emphasis on how important fixations are in a person’s life and how they evitably will affect the outcome of the individual’s personal development from a young age. For example, you are described as having an 'oral-passive character' if you’re dependent on others and have a major interest in drinking, smoking and eating. Which he substantiated based on the lack of allowed pleasure missed in an individual’s infancy. While if you have a tendency to bit or nibble on things such a pencils, gum or/and even people and you also have tendency to be verbally aggressive, argumentative, sarcastic ... etc. You are referred to by Freud as having an 'oral-aggressive personality’. This is as explained related to if the infant has had trouble with teething like biting the mother’s nipple. Then there is 'anal expulsive personality (or labeled as an ‘anal aggressive personality’) used to describe those who tend to be disorganized and generous to a fault and also display cruel and destructive tendencies. In addition, there is also on the opposite scale to the extreme ‘anal expulsive or anal aggressive personality’ the ‘anal retentive personality’ that describes someone who is clean, perfectionistic, dictatorial, stubborn and stingy. As Freud states is caused from parents who have use punishment as form of humiliation towards the child.
In addition he extends his theory to given 'phallic personalities' in attempt to differentiate masculine and feminine archetypes. As it goes a boy who is harshly rejected by his mother and threatening predominantly masculine father is likely to have a poor sense of self worth when it comes to their sexuality. This results in either pretending to be macho or/and major withdrawal from heterosexual relations. While for a girl if they experience a strong rejection from their father and has predominantly feminine mother she is has the tendency to have poor self image of herself or/and become ultra feminine or a typical girlie girl. Yet if a boy is favoured by an weakened father figure and not rejected by his mother they are described to become more effeminate and likely to develop more of self-ego or/and opinionated self. While if a girl is favoured by her father while the mother plays more subservient-second role she is likely to develop a more masculine self
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In addition he extends his theory to given 'phallic personalities' in attempt to differentiate masculine and feminine archetypes. As it goes a boy who is harshly rejected by his mother and threatening predominantly masculine father is likely to have a poor sense of self worth when it comes to their sexuality. This results in either pretending to be macho or/and major withdrawal from heterosexual relations. While for a girl if they experience a strong rejection from their father and has predominantly feminine mother she is has the tendency to have poor self image of herself or/and become ultra feminine or a typical girlie girl. Yet if a boy is favoured by an weakened father figure and not rejected by his mother they are described to become more effeminate and likely to develop more of self-ego or/and opinionated self. While if a girl is favoured by her father while the mother plays more subservient-second role she is likely to develop a more masculine self
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