Becoming Whole | Parker #31 | 4.18.22

Parker and Dhammarato discuss the Buddhist concepts of gratification, danger and escape (from the Anguttara Nikaya 3) in the context of Freud’s theory of the five stages of psychosexual development. #developmentalpsychology #freud #transactionalanalysis 

Aṅguttara Nikāya 3

103. Pubbevasambodhasutta - Before Awakening

https://suttacentral.net/an3.103/en/sujato?layout=sidebyside&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin

Freud’s 5 Stages of Psychosexual Development

https://www.simplypsychology.org/psychosexual.html

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00:00:00 Gratification, danger, and escape - enjoying seclusion; nekkhamma; authority

00:15:02 The rebel and the self-preservation instinct; oral, anal, and phallic; Alexander Lowen

00:23:58 ‘Games People Play’ and the three personality types

00:26:29 Stopping children from being children vs. nurturing

00:31:09 The needy, the rebel, and the competitor; gratification and protection

00:44:58 The universal feeling of abandonment; Maslow; Dhamma

00:52:04 Liking and disliking; pleasures of the senses and of the mind; paticcasamupāda and inter-relatedness

01:03:08 Sankhāra; durian fruit and lactose intolerance; sexuality; Edward Bernays

01:11:13 Freud, pseudoscience, theory, and practice; metaphorical understanding; arising and passing away

01:21:10 Gratification, danger, and escape as foundations of the Dhamma