Describe the stages of psychoanalytic development according to sigmund Freud.

a) Oral stage 0-2 years

The child derives pleasure by playing with the mouth. The child has a tendency of putting objects in the mouth. If the individual fixates at this stage, he displays the following characteristics in adulthood.

Pessimism

Excessive drinking and smoking

Abusive

Excessive kissing

Individuals who did not fixate are

Optimistic

Trustworthy

b) Anal stage 2-3 years

The anal region becomes a source of pleasure especially when the training empties the bowel. Toilet training is introduced at this stage. If toilet training is strict, during adulthood the individual becomes a miser.
Obsessed with orderliness and neatness

Perfectionist tendencies

Very stingy

Where there was no training, the individual becomes overgenerous

c) Phallic stage 4-6 years

During this stage a boy develops unconscious sexual desire for his mother until he imagines that the father might castrate him hence develops a conflict called Oedipus complex. The girl develops unconscious desire for her father. She imagines that she is a rival of the mother over her fathers. This leads to electra complex or conflict. The boy that fixates at this stage is likely to become a homosexual whereas a girl becomes lesbian.

d) Latency stage 6-8 years

Boys identify with their father as girls identify with their mother.

e) Genital stage 8 years
The individual develops heterosexual

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marto answered the question on April 23, 2019 at 08:04