The document describes a game where students take turns choosing options to progress through Freud's stages of psychosexual development. It outlines the Id, Ego and Super-Ego and how choices in each stage like the oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital stages can impact personality development and psychological traits. The player in the example chooses options that lead them to develop penis envy in the phallic stage which has consequences in later stages until they complete the game and are revealed to have turned out like Marilyn Monroe.
2. INSTRUCTIONS
Each student will have a chance to pick a
direction on where to go through Freud’s
Game of Life. Pick an option and see
where it leads...
Each student has the option to choose
“cop out”, which allows the player to select
an item from the “cop out” pile.
If a student chooses the “cop out” option,
the succeeding student will choose from
the remaining options. “Cop out” is only
available once per question.
3. Select for option
One
Make your first choice...
Select for option
cop out
Two
4. Congratulations, you’re a girl!
(sorry John)
According to Freud, upon your screaming and crying
entrance into this wonderful world, you came with a
special gift...
Select from the options below...
cop out
Receive your gift
5. Your gift: The Id
Present at birth, the Id corresponds with the
unconscious, which is the part of the mind that holds
ideas, thoughts and memories that we cannot access or
bring into our conscious awareness
The Id is comprised of basic drives and
instinctual energies...i.e., sex and
aggression
ID
Freud conceptualized both these instincts
as being powered by a form of internal
psychic energy that he called libido.
6. Infancy
Now that you’re here in Freud’s Game of Life, your
personality depends on the way in which you expend
your sexual energy.
No pressure, but the choice you make here will reflect your lasting feelings about
yourself and others. So, choose wisely...
Select for option Select for option
cop out
One Two
7. You have chosen...The Oral Stage
birth through 12 or 18 months
As an infant, you explore the world through your primary
source of gratification...your mouth.
Your need for food, touch and comfort is satisfied in this stage.
HOWEVER, if you receive too much or too little need
satisfaction, this will reflect in later personality development.
Choose your future personality development...
Select for option Select for option
cop out
One Two
8. Sorry, you have lost your turn...
You are beginning to develop ambivalent feelings toward your
mother, who is not always available to meet your id’s demands.
You bite to express this ambivalence.
This biting phase in the oral stage is known as “Oral
Aggressive”, which will reflect in the development of your
personality later on in Freud’s Game of Life.
9. Emergence of the Ego
Very soon after birth, part of the id differentiates into the ego
whose function it is to translate the id's internal wishes
(experienced in the form of images) into contact with actual
objects. This is the secondary process.
Select an option to see how this Ego emerges into your life...
Select for option Select for option
cop out
One Two
10. Self from Other
As a rudimentary ego begins to grow, you’re beginning to
distinguish “self” from “not self”
How you are doing this?
Ego
Things that give pleasure
are experienced as “self”
ID
Things that do not are
experienced as “not self”
or “other”
11. Select for option
One
Select your next phase
Select for option
cop out
Two
12. You have chosen...The Anal Stage
roughly ages 2 - 3
As you’re learning the basics of potty training, you’re learning
that the rectum is an important means of self-expression!
This stage is divided into two phases: Expulsion and Retention
which will manifest in later psychological development
Choose wisely...
Select for option Select for option
cop out
One Two
13. Anal Retentive vs. Anal Aggressive
Your parents did a great job! Due to your balanced potty
training education, you are neither Anal Retentive (with-
holding) nor Anal Aggressive (freely letting go), both of which
could manifest later in life as hostile personality traits.
Select your next stage
Select for option Select for option
cop out
One Two
14. You have chosen...The Phallic Stage
roughly ages 3 - 5
You now recognize that you are different from boys and begin
to develop erotic pleasure and seek to connect that pleasure
with a “love object”, a specific person.
Behind the screens are either:
The Oedipus Complex, Castration Anxiety or Penis Envy
Choose a screen option
Select for option Select for option Select for option
One Two Three
15. You have developed...Penis Envy
Because you’re a girl, you neither experience the
Oedipus Complex [sexual desire for mom and rival for dad] nor do you
experience Castration Anxiety [identify w/ dad for fear of castration]
You have developed Penis Envy!
Unfortunately, this comes with repercussions. You must choose
from the following consequences of Penis Envy
Resent mom, Underdeveloped Narcissism and
Love dad Super-Ego Inferiority
16. Congratulations...you got all 3!
First, when you discover you don’t have a penis...you realize
your mom doesn’t either. You develop resentment towards her
and desire to have your dad’s baby
Ego
Second, because you don’t have the
motivation of castration anxiety and
losing your penis, your super ego is
ID
less developed
Super-
Third, according to Freud, you
Ego
remain narcissistic and display
inferior character traits
17. Select for option
One
Select your next phase
Select for option
cop out
Two
18. You have chosen...The Latency Stage
roughly ages 5-6 through puberty
Your erotic drives are still located in your
genitals, but are fully repressed.
Ego
ID
You continue to identify with your mom
And your Super-Ego is now beginning to Super-
strengthen as you’re incorporating your Ego
parent’s values
19. Select for option
One
Select your final phase
Select for option
cop out
Two
20. You have chosen...The Genital Stage
Puberty through Adulthood
This final stage represents adult genital maturity.
Your libidinal energy is now directed toward appropriate
members of the opposite sex.
Choose from the options below to see who you have turned out
to be...
Select for option Select for option
cop out
One Two
