PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 50: Anal Stage, Oral Stage, Phallic Stage
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Freud provided a view of how personality develops through series of 5 psychosexual stages: during psychosexual stages children encounter conflicts between demands of society & own sexual urge, sexuality is more about experiencing pleasure, less about lust. Sequence proposed is noteworthy b/c it explains how experiences & difficulties during a particular childhood stage may predict specific characteristics in adult personality. Theory is also unique in associating each stage w/ a major biological function: freud assumed to be focus of pleasure in a given period, stages, oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital, oral stage: Baby"s mouth is focal point of pleasure. Children suck, eat, mouth, & bite anything they can put into their mouths: to freud, this behavior suggested that the mouth is the primary site of a kind of sexual pleasure, weaning: drawing breast/bottle. If infants are either overindulged/frustrated in search for oral gratification, they may become fixated at this stage: anal stage:
