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"Describe and Discuss the Psychoanalytic Approach to Explaining Gender".
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21/11/03 "Describe and Discuss the Psychoanalytic Approach to Explaining Gender" The psychoanalytical approach to explaining gender suggests that the development of gender identity in a person is directly linked to their interpersonal relationships with their parents when they were children. The relationship they have with their parents creates a gender identity for them that will remain for the rest of their lives. The theories of the psychoanalytic approach also assume the presence of an unconscious mind. Gender identity is an awareness of being either male or female, permanently. According to Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental theory, a child's understanding of gender has three stages (gender identity, gender stability and gender constancy), as a result of interaction with the physical and social environment, gender identity being the first of these. He suggested that children could determine correctly whether they are a boy or a girl by around the age of 2. However, children do not have more...
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