"Boys And Girls: The Development Of Gender Roles"
Beginning of paper
In "Boys and girls: The development of gender roles," Beale gives us
revealing overview of Freud's personality theory. Beale point out both strengths
and weaknesses of his answer to the questions of "Why" and "How" in gender
development, but still leaves a chance for a reader to make up her/his ow ....
Middle of paper
.... of a critical period in gender
development. Freud's theory suggests that the way in which the id, ego, and
superego evolve and the way in which they proliferate in the first six years of
a child's life will influence the child's emotional attachment to her/his parent
of the same sex and, as consequence, the child's gender identification.
I would agree with Freud's statement that children undergo a certain
emotional crisis after becoming aware of their genitals. It must be somewhat
frustra ....
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