INTRODUCTION
Sigmund Freud was born in 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia. He was the eldest among three boys and five girls in the family. His father was a wool merchant and considered to very authoritarian. His mother was protective and nurturing. Freud was a good student and his parents tried their best to support his career. This made Freud feel being a favored child. He passed out of the University of Vienna with a medical degree and aimed to becoming a research scientist. In his first major research project, he searched for testes of eel which gives a special significance given his later vide of development as psychosexual development and his belief that most behaviors reflect the unconscious sexual meaning.
Financial pressures forced Freud …show more content…
During this, his first major presentation to professional colleagues, he outlined a stunning and controversial hypothesis: “that at the bottom of every case of hysteria there are one or more occurrences of premature sexual experience”. Freud was more or less professionally isolated for a time after the presentation of his 1896 paper. Freud’s reputation plummeted. His private practice in decline and his professional life in a shambles, Freud began what has been described as “his lonely and painful …show more content…
Freud believed that each of us must pass through a series of stages during childhood, and that if we lack proper nurturing and parenting during a stage, we may become fixated on that stage. According to Freud, children’s pleasure seeking urges (governed by the id are focused on a different area of the body, called an erogenous zone, at each of the five stages of development: oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital.
It is like having 5 miniature personalities, each lasting a couple years until one reaches maturity. Each stage presents you with a unique challenge, and if one successfully overcomes that challenge, you acquire a fully mature personality.
• The Oral stage (0 to 1 years of age): During the first year of life, the mouth is site of sexual and aggressive gratification. An infant’s life centers on his mouth. One of the first objects out there that provides and infant with oral satisfaction is his mother’s breast. The mother’s breast is a main source of connection and satisfaction. If a child’s oral needs are not met during infancy, he or she may develop negative habits such as nail biting or thumb sucking to meet this basic
Sigmund Freud was born in 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia. He was the eldest among three boys and five girls in the family. His father was a wool merchant and considered to very authoritarian. His mother was protective and nurturing. Freud was a good student and his parents tried their best to support his career. This made Freud feel being a favored child. He passed out of the University of Vienna with a medical degree and aimed to becoming a research scientist. In his first major research project, he searched for testes of eel which gives a special significance given his later vide of development as psychosexual development and his belief that most behaviors reflect the unconscious sexual meaning.
Financial pressures forced Freud …show more content…
During this, his first major presentation to professional colleagues, he outlined a stunning and controversial hypothesis: “that at the bottom of every case of hysteria there are one or more occurrences of premature sexual experience”. Freud was more or less professionally isolated for a time after the presentation of his 1896 paper. Freud’s reputation plummeted. His private practice in decline and his professional life in a shambles, Freud began what has been described as “his lonely and painful …show more content…
Freud believed that each of us must pass through a series of stages during childhood, and that if we lack proper nurturing and parenting during a stage, we may become fixated on that stage. According to Freud, children’s pleasure seeking urges (governed by the id are focused on a different area of the body, called an erogenous zone, at each of the five stages of development: oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital.
It is like having 5 miniature personalities, each lasting a couple years until one reaches maturity. Each stage presents you with a unique challenge, and if one successfully overcomes that challenge, you acquire a fully mature personality.
• The Oral stage (0 to 1 years of age): During the first year of life, the mouth is site of sexual and aggressive gratification. An infant’s life centers on his mouth. One of the first objects out there that provides and infant with oral satisfaction is his mother’s breast. The mother’s breast is a main source of connection and satisfaction. If a child’s oral needs are not met during infancy, he or she may develop negative habits such as nail biting or thumb sucking to meet this basic