PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Oral Stage, Libido, Erogenous Zone
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The ways in which we learned to manage our impulses, the directions they took, all of these will remain signi cant for the rest of our lives. The largest in uence on our adult sexuality is our childhood. As we move stages, we move libido: when we get to adulthood, we have sexual/aggressive libido cathected to all of our erogenous zones. Someone is either rushed through the sub-stage without full grati cation or else they are stuck in a stage. Letting breastfeeding go on longer than a year might be a signal of. There are some ppl who leave much more libido behind at a certain stage: we describe loved ones as food (honey, sweetie) because the pleasures with food are like the pleasures with sex. Oral incorporative: we can"t seem to get enough oral sexual pleasures so we will use anything that is symbolic (taking in of anything, watching tv.