Personality Enduring patterns of perceiving relating to and thinking about the environment and oneself. Copyright Notice Adapted from Wikipedia. Text is available under the  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 ; additional terms may apply.

How Does the Oedipal Complex Resolve? Oedipus complex refers to the son–father competition for possession of his mother that occurs during the phallic stage of psychosexual development. The male child resolves it by crushing the hostility against and identifying with his father and repressing his feelings for his mother. The child takes on the mannerisms, standards, and behaviours of his father, and in this way, the superego develops at six. Trigger for the Resolution When the Oedipus complex forms, the boy remains in a constant conflict. He directs his libido towards his mother and develops an emotional rivalry with his father. Because of this rivalry, he wants to kill the father, but because of his position; becomes fearful that his father might castrate him—we call this castration anxiety.  Use of defences Defence mechanisms provide momentary relief of the conflict between the id and the ego. Repression and identification are the two mechanisms that help with this.  Repression

DAILE D detached A aloof I introspective  L lacking enjoyment  E emotionally cold 

According to the theory of psychosexual development, subjects develop the following traits with fixation at the oral stage of development:  Dependency Optimism Gullibility Sarcasm Hostility Aggression Pessimism, passivity MNEMONIC: DOG SHAPe

I ACE I mpulsive A ntisocial  C old E gocentric 

PEN Psychoticism Extroversion Neuroticism

Mnemonic for Freud's Stages of Psychosexual Development The following sentence helps me remember the stages of psychosexual development in order.  O nions A nd P otatoes L ook G reat Oral Anal Phallic Latency  Genital