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Psychosexual Development
• The development of the psyche:
•
Personality develops in stages
• Progresses in stages as the libido (desire, sexual
energy) is redirected to different parts of the body
• Fixation: Lack of resolution
• Excessive frustration or overindulgence (vs
gratification) results in fixation
• Portion of libido remains invested
Psychosexual Development
• Psychosexual Stages
– Oral
– Anal
– Phallic
– Latency
– Genital
1. Oral Stage
-Crisis: Being weaned away from mother(pleasurable mouth stimulation and
teething)
Age
Characteristics
Types
• Mouth is the
primary
erogenous zone
Birth – 1
• Pleasure derived
from sucking
• Id is dominant
Oral incorporative:
•Excessive concern with
oral activities
Oral aggressive:
•Excessive pessimism &
aggressiveness
Oral Stage (BIRTH TO 18 MONTHS)
• Theme
– Infants are driven to satisfy the drives of hunger and
thirst
• Conflict
– Child must give up breast feeding
• Fixation
– Dependency
– Preoccupation with oral acquisition
2. Anal Stage
-Crisis: Toilet trainingAge
Characteristics
• Anus is primary
erogenous zone
18 Months
• Toilet training
– 3 years
interferes with
gratification of
defecating
Types
Anal retentive:
•Rigid, stubborn, stingy
Anal
aggressive/expulsive:
•Cruel, destructive,
tantrums
Anal Stage (18 Months – 3 years)
• Theme:
– Child receives pleasure from relieving self of bodily
waste
• Conflict:
– Child is “toilet trained”
• Fixation:
– Preoccupation with neatness
– Excessive “bathroom humor”
– “anal-retentive” and “anal-expulsive” characteristics
– (too critical and strict parenting and too lenient
parenting)
Anal Stage (18 Months – 3 years)
• Fixation:
– Preoccupation with neatness, parsimony, order,
organization…
• Adulthood obstinacy ‘I will go when I want’
• Stinginess ‘I’ll keep it to myself’
– Excessive “bathroom humor”
• Making messes of one’s and other’s lives
– “anal-retentive” and “anal-expulsive” characteristics
– (too critical and strict parenting and too lenient
parenting)
3. Phallic Stage
-most complex to dissolve- Conflıct:
Age
4-5
Characteristics
• Genitals are
primary
erogenous zone
• Superego
development
Types
Boys:
•Oedipus Complex
•Castration Anxiety
Girls:
•Electra Complex
•Penis Envy
Phallic Stage
• Theme:
– Child gains pleasure through the genitals
– Oedipus Complex-Boys desire mother
• Castration anxiety
– Electra Complex-Girls suffer penis envy
Phallic Stage
• Conflict:
– Overt sexual behavior socially unacceptable
• Fixation:
– Vanity (excessive pride), narcissism, inability to
love
By age 6, good sense of gender identity
4. Latency Period
No new developments – NO fixatıons
Age
Characteristics
• Not a true stage – period of rest, calm
5–
Puberty
• Sex instinct sublimated into school
activities, hobbies, and sports
• Focus on same sex friendships
Latency Stage
• Theme:
– Psychosexual energy is channeled into academic and
social pursuits
• Conflicts and fixations do not occur during this stage
• Freud failed to put focus on this important phase in life
•
making frriends
•
•
learning socialization
Developing study habits etc
Age
5. Genital Period
Characteristics
• Libidinal energy organized around the
genitals
• Conforming to societal sanctions of sexual
expression
Adolescence
• Finding satisfaction in love & work
– Adulthood
• Focus committed adult relationships –
warm and caring…
• Sublimation via focus on achievement at
work
Genital Stage
• Theme:
– The individual gains satisfaction from mature sexual
relationships
• This stage is achieved if a person makes it through the
other stages with enough available sexual energy
– no strong fixations
– “normal” (conventional) adult sexuality is viewed as
the healthy outcome