Freud’s 5 Stages of Psychosexual Development

5 Stages of Development Oral Stage (birth - 1½ years) stage in life where everything is centered around the mouth feeding and weaning babies get stimulation orally Freud believed if weaned too early or too late personality problems may develop

Examples: Too early Too late too dependent on others overeating rejection of others self-starvation being very sarcastic

5 Stages of Development Anal Stage (1½ - 2½ years) stage in life concentrated on toilet training if toilet training is too harsh or too lenient more personality problems

Examples Too harshly Too leniently anal retentive - sticking very rigidly to rules and regulations obsessive neatness stubbornness Too leniently Anally lax - seems carefree or free of trouble and worry and care marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness

5 Stages of Development Phallic Stage (2½ - 5 or 6) kids begin to identify and deal with emotions "Oedipus Complex" - Greek play about Oedipus who kills his father and marries his mother involves a desire for the opposite-sex parent and feelings of jealousy and hostile feelings for same-sex parent to deal with fear and guilt, the child takes on characteristics of same-sex parent

Examples unreasonable anxiety extreme guilt phobias depression

Latency Stage (6 - adolescence) 5 Stages of Development Latency Stage (6 - adolescence) nothing really happens everything is hidden

Genital Stage (adolescence - beyond) 5 Stages of Development Genital Stage (adolescence - beyond) people begin to seek out marriage partner and prepare for adult life old conflicts resurface