Fixations in different stages
Unconscious fixations at different psychosexual stages have serious implications for violent behavior in later life. Let’s see how seed of violence can be planted during psychosexual stages of development.
Fixation at Oral Stage
If a child was not fed enough/neglected or was fed too much, this may later create an oral fixation in that adult. It is believed that fixation in the oral stage can cause one of two things.
1. If the child was underfed or neglected, he will become orally dependent, and obsessed with achieving oral stimulation which he was deprived of. He might learn to manipulate others to fulfill his needs rather than maturing to independence.
2. The overly indulged child may resist growing up and try to return to that state of dependency through crying; fighting and aggressive behavior to get some desirable thing like a child, and an aggressive child in the adult body can be dreadfully dangerous.” Another fixation at oral stage can result in Narcissism.
Narcissism
Narcissism
The term narcissism means love of oneself. This concept was also borrowed from Greek mythology. It’s about a beautiful prince named Narcissus, who was unaware of his own beauty and doomed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. Narcissus died because he could only love his image at he expense of himself. Now a narcissist can prove to be very violent because they are selfish, lack empathy for anyone else and only think about personal benefits. Such people can commit any nature of a crime just to fulfill their own wish and desire.
Fixation at Anal Stage
While struggling with the toilet training, child wants freedom as id is dominant at that age. Anal fixation, which may be caused by too much punishment during toilet training, has two possible outcomes.
1. The Anal retentive personality: such people become Obsessive, stingy, with a compulsive seeking of order and tidiness. The person is generally stubborn and perfectionist.
2. The Anal explosive personality: on other extreme is an opposite of the anal retentive personality, and has a lack of self control, being generally messy and careless. Expulsive violent types of people are usually involved in terrorism.
Fixation at Phallic Stage
At the age of 5 or 6, as discussed earlier, boys experience the Oedipus Complex whilst girls experience the Electra conflict, which is a process through which they learn to identify with the same gender parent by acting as much like that parent as possible. Going through the process of identification with same sex parent, child compares the genetals with ht e same sex parent and start feeling
- Inferiority
- Inadequacy
- Inferiority
- Inadequacy
Adults fixated at phallic stage have trouble in friend making and finding mates so ultimately making a profile of a person who fits the terrorist’s profile and could be an easy prey of those who are going to brain wash and manipulate people for their own businesses.
Fixation at Genital Stage
At this stage no new problem comes but told problems comes in to front and become apparent. Fixation at earlier stages along with the lack of guidance leads towards Sexual Violence.
Id And Violence
Inflated Id commits particular type of crimes. More chances are that a person with bloomed Id is fixated at Oral stage as narcissist are usually dominated by Id. such people get bored if they do not heed their wishes and impulses. Thrill and pleasure seeking is very important for them like car racings on rush roads, fast driving and sky diving e.t.c but Id inflated people are not only pleasure seeker but are irresponsible too. Following characteristics are frequent in individuals with id dominated personality.
• Failure to think of consequences
• Impulsive behavior.
• Inability to empathize with the victim.
• Thrill seeking.
• Irresponsible behavior.
Superego and Violence
Inflated super ego can result in different aspects:
- Crime and Punishment
Super ego may be at the back of crimes that involve the thinking that one must be punish for doing any thing wrong and undesirable. The idea is that one must be punished for their sins, crimes, mistakes. As children internalize their parents may personalize their unforgiving attitude. If parents hit/beat them, they will hit and torture other people and would take revenge.
- Punishing oneself
An individual trying to protect others from violence might predispose oneself to self-injury. Like some one sacrifice and falsely confesses to protect others is another kind of extreme violence associated with super ego.
- Ego and Violence
Ego usually does not commit crime and a well-developed Ego is the best defense against crime because logic and reason can prevent self from committing a crime and is aware of consequence. But a threatened Ego can be very violent and aggressive, e.g. A person was scolded and insulted by his boss in front of his colleagues. Now ego is threatened and such person can easily target his wife or children for violence. One other thing linked with bloomed ego is difficulty of absorption of criticism.
- Inflated Ego can result in calculated crimes like
• Seeking power.
• Can help maximize gain and minimize loss
Psychoanalysis and Crime scene investigation
How Id, Ego and super Ego can help in investigating a crime scene? By examine the clues a forensic psychologist can understand the type of criminal who has committed the crime.
The Id can leave lots of clues, because id does not care about consequences and is irresponsible in nature, and commits disorganized crimes.
The Superego might leave the clues on crime scene so criminal will get caught.
Sometimes the Ego can also leave clues but investigation of such crimes is relatively difficult.
Fixation at Genital Stage
At this stage no new problem comes but told problems comes in to front and become apparent. Fixation at earlier stages along with the lack of guidance leads towards Sexual Violence.
Id And Violence
Inflated Id commits particular type of crimes. More chances are that a person with bloomed Id is fixated at Oral stage as narcissist are usually dominated by Id. such people get bored if they do not heed their wishes and impulses. Thrill and pleasure seeking is very important for them like car racings on rush roads, fast driving and sky diving e.t.c but Id inflated people are not only pleasure seeker but are irresponsible too. Following characteristics are frequent in individuals with id dominated personality.
• Failure to think of consequences
• Impulsive behavior.
• Inability to empathize with the victim.
• Thrill seeking.
• Irresponsible behavior.
Superego and Violence
Inflated super ego can result in different aspects:
- Crime and Punishment
Super ego may be at the back of crimes that involve the thinking that one must be punish for doing any thing wrong and undesirable. The idea is that one must be punished for their sins, crimes, mistakes. As children internalize their parents may personalize their unforgiving attitude. If parents hit/beat them, they will hit and torture other people and would take revenge.
- Punishing oneself
An individual trying to protect others from violence might predispose oneself to self-injury. Like some one sacrifice and falsely confesses to protect others is another kind of extreme violence associated with super ego.
- Ego and Violence
Ego usually does not commit crime and a well-developed Ego is the best defense against crime because logic and reason can prevent self from committing a crime and is aware of consequence. But a threatened Ego can be very violent and aggressive, e.g. A person was scolded and insulted by his boss in front of his colleagues. Now ego is threatened and such person can easily target his wife or children for violence. One other thing linked with bloomed ego is difficulty of absorption of criticism.
- Inflated Ego can result in calculated crimes like
• Seeking power.
• Can help maximize gain and minimize loss
Psychoanalysis and Crime scene investigation
How Id, Ego and super Ego can help in investigating a crime scene? By examine the clues a forensic psychologist can understand the type of criminal who has committed the crime.
The Id can leave lots of clues, because id does not care about consequences and is irresponsible in nature, and commits disorganized crimes.
The Superego might leave the clues on crime scene so criminal will get caught.
Sometimes the Ego can also leave clues but investigation of such crimes is relatively difficult.
