FREUD’S STAGE OF PSYCHOLOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

FREUD’S STAGE OF PSYCHOLOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

Sigmund Freud (1856-1930) is the most t well know theories when it comes to the development of personality Freud’s Stages  of Psychosexual are, like other stage theories, completed in a predetermined sequence and can result in either successful completion or a healthy personality or can result failure, leading to an unhealthy  personality. This theory probably the most well know as well as the most controversial. During each stage, an unsuccessful completion means that a child became fixate on that particular erogenous zone and either or under –indulges once he or she become an adult.

v  Oral Stage (Birth to 18h months) During the oral stage, the child if focus on oral pleasure (sucking). Too much or too little gratification can result in an Oral Fixation or Oral Personality which is evidenced by a preoccupation with oral activities. This type of personality may have a stronger tendency to smoke, drink alcohol, over eat, or bite his or her nails. Personality wise, these individuals may become overly depend upon others. On the other hands, they may also fight these urges and development pessimism and aggression toward others.

v  Anal Stage (18 months to 3years) The child’s focus of pleasure in this stage is on eliminating and retaining feces. Through society’s pressure, mainly via parents, the child has to learn to control anal stimulation. In terms of personality, after effect of an anal fixation during this stage can result in an obsession with cleanliness, perfection, and control (anal retentive). On the opposite end of the spectrum, they may become messy and disorganized (anal expulsive).

v  Phallic Stage (ages 3 to 6) The pleasure zone switches to the genital. Freud believed that during this stage boy develop unconscious sexual desires for their mother. Because of this, he become rivals with his father and sees him as competition for the mother’s affection. During this time, boy also develop a fear   that their father will punish them for these feelings, such as by castrating them. This group of feelings is known as Oedipus complex

 Later it was added that girls go through a similar, developing unconscious sexual attraction to their father. Although Freud Strong disagreed with, it has been termed the Electra Complex.

v  Latency Stage (age six to puberty)It´s during this stage that sexual urges repressed and children interact and play mostly with same sex peers.


v  Genital Stage (puberty on) The final stage of psychosexual development begin at the start of puberty when sexual urges are one again awakened. Through the lesson learned during stages, adolescents direct their sexual urges onto opposite sex peers; with the primary focus is the genital               

     

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