Psychological Models of Violence 🧠⚡

• Psychoanalytical, Behavioral, Humanistic, Social Cognitive, Attachment Theory, Psychobiological

Psychoanalytical Model (Freud, 1890s) 🛋️

• Unconscious mind drives behavior; hidden wishes & memories influence actions 🧠
• Conscious mind small; subconscious huge influence 🌊
• Example: man unconsciously returns to lady's house to get keys 🔑🏠

Law of Conservation of Energy ⚡

• Energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed 🔄
• Freud: suppressed drives show up in other behaviors

Structural Model of Personality 🧩

• Id: born with it 👶, pleasure principle, seeks immediate satisfaction 🍭, ignores reality/others
• Superego: moral conscience 🧑‍⚖️, internalized from parents/society 👪, tells right/wrong ✅❌
• Example: elder brother warns younger not to steal candies 🍬🚫
• Ego: mediator ⚖️, balances Id & Superego using logic 🧠, conscious, prevents impulsive or rigid behavior

Instincts 🌱💀

• Eros: life, pleasure, creativity ✨
• Thanatos: death drive, desire for calm or non-existence 🕊️
• Parallel Hindu Trinity: Brahma (create) 🌟, Vishnu (maintain) 🔄, Shiva (destroy) 🔥

Psychosexual Development Stages 🍼➡️🧑

Oral Stage (0-2) 👶👄

• Pleasure via mouth (sucking, biting)
• Frustration → pessimism, envy, sarcasm 😒
• Overindulgence → optimism, gullibility 😃
• Conflict: weaning

Anal Stage (1.5-2) 🚽

• Focus on anus/feces
• Conflict Id vs Ego/Superego ⚔️
• Toilet training shapes personality
• Overindulgence → anal retentive (neat, precise, stubborn) 🧹
• Leniency → anal expulsive (messy, disorganized, defiant) 🖌️

Phallic Stage (3-7) ⚡

• Sexual conflict, Oedipus/Electra Complexes 💔

Oedipus Complex 👦❤️👩‍👦

• Boy unconsciously desires mother, rivals father 😠
• Resolves by identifying with father to gain mother's approval ✅

Electra Complex 👧❤️👨‍👧

• Girl unconsciously desires father, rivals mother 😠
• Resolves by identifying with mother to impress father ✅