How is the personality affected by anxiety and by mechanisms employed to reduce anxiety

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How is the personality affected by anxiety and by
mechanisms employed to reduce anxiety

• Reality neurotic and moral anxiety
• Reducing anxiety
• Displacement and sublimation
• Ego Defense Mechanisms
• The role of repression
• Other mechanisms
• The development of personality

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Conflict
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• Erogenous zones
• Oedipus
• Elektra

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Oral (0-18 months)
Pleasure centers on the mouthsucking biting
chewing
Anal (18-36 months)
Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder
elimination coping with demands for control
Phallic (3-6 years)
Pleasure zone is the genitals coping with
incestuous sexual feelings
Latency (6 to puberty)
Repressed sexual feelings
Genital (puberty on)
Maturation of sexual interests
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...So long as we trace the development from its
final stage backwards the connection appears
continuous and we feel we have gained an insight
that is completely satisfactory. But if we
proceed the reverse way if we start from the
premises inferred from the analysis and try to
follow these up to the final result then we no
longer get the impression of an inevitable
sequence of events which could not be otherwise
determined. We notice at once that there might
have been another result and that we might have
been just as well able to understand and explain
the latter. In other words from a knowledge of
the premises we could not have foretold the
nature of the result...
Sigmund Freud