Freud's Psychosexual Stages Of Development

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What are the 5 stages of Freud's psychosexual theory of development?

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1. Oral
2. Anal
3. Phallic
4. Latency
5. Genital

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Oral Stage

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Thefirst stage in Freud’s psychosexual stages of development. This stage occurs between the ages of 0 and 2. During this time, the main sources of pleasure and tension reduction are the mouth, lips, and tongue.

Adults who still obtain pleasure from “taking in,” especially through the mouth

(e.g., people who overeat or smoke or talk too much) might be fixated at this stage.

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Anal Stage

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Thesecond stage in Freud’s psychosexual stages of development. This stage occurs at age 2-3. At this stage,the anal sphincter is the source of sexual pleasure, and the child obtains pleasure from first expelling feces and then, during toilet training, fromretaining feces.

Adults who are compulsive, overly neat, rigid, and never messyare, according to psychoanalytic theory, likely to be fixated at the anal stage.

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Phallic Stage

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The third stage in Freud’s psychosexual stages of development. It occurs between three and five years of age, during which time the child discovers that he has (or she discovers that she does not have) a penis. This stage also includes theawakening of sexual desire directed, according to Freud, toward the parent ofthe opposite sex.

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Latency Stage

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The fourth stage in Freud’s psychosexual stages of development. This stage occurs from around the age of 6 or 7 until puberty. Freud believed few specific sexual conflicts existed during this time, and was thus a period of psychological restor latency. The latency period ends with the sexual awakening broughtabout by puberty.

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Genital Stage

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The final stage in Freud’s psychosexual stage theory of development. This stage begins around age 12 and lasts through one’s adult life. Here the libido isfocused on the genitals, but not in the manner of self-manipulation associated with the phallic stage. People can reach the genital stage with full psychic energy once they have resolved the conflicts in the prior stages.