1. Psychosexual Development
The development of the psyche:
Personality develops in stages
Progresses in stages as the libido (desire, sexual energy) is redirected to different parts of the body
Fixation: Lack of resolution
Excessive frustration or overindulgence (vs gratification) results in fixation
Portion of libido remains invested

2. Psychosexual Development
Psychosexual Stages
Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital

3. 1. Oral Stage -Crisis: Being weaned away from mother-
1. Oral Stage -Crisis: Being weaned away from mother- (pleasurable mouth stimulation and teething)
Age
Characteristics
Types
Birth – 1
Mouth is the primary erogenous zone
Pleasure derived from sucking
Id is dominant
Oral incorporative:
Excessive concern with oral activities
Oral aggressive:
Excessive pessimism & aggressiveness

4. Oral Stage (BIRTH TO 18 MONTHS)
Theme
Infants are driven to satisfy the drives of hunger and thirst
Conflict
Child must give up breast feeding
Fixation
Dependency
Preoccupation with oral acquisition

5. 2. Anal Stage -Crisis: Toilet training-
Characteristics
Types
18 Months – 3 years
Anus is primary erogenous zone
Toilet training interferes with gratification of defecating
Anal retentive:
Rigid, stubborn, stingy
Anal aggressive/expulsive:
Cruel, destructive, tantrums

6. Anal Stage (18 Months – 3 years)
Theme:
Child receives pleasure from relieving self of bodily waste
Conflict:
Child is “toilet trained”
Fixation:
Preoccupation with neatness
Excessive “bathroom humor”
“anal-retentive” and “anal-expulsive” characteristics
(too critical and strict parenting and too lenient parenting)

7. Anal Stage (18 Months – 3 years)
Fixation:
Preoccupation with neatness, parsimony, order, organization…
Adulthood obstinacy ‘I will go when I want’
Stinginess ‘I’ll keep it to myself’
Excessive “bathroom humor”
Making messes of one’s and other’s lives
“anal-retentive” and “anal-expulsive” characteristics
(too critical and strict parenting and too lenient parenting)

8. 3. Phallic Stage -most complex to dissolve- Conflıct:
Characteristics
Types
4-5
Genitals are primary erogenous zone
Superego development
Boys:
Oedipus Complex
Castration Anxiety
Girls:
Electra Complex
Penis Envy
Phallic Stage – 3 to 6 years
Autoerotic – awakenin of sexual impulses
Oedipus Complex

9. Phallic Stage Theme: Child gains pleasure through the genitals
Oedipus Complex-Boys desire mother
Castration anxiety
Electra Complex-Girls suffer penis envy

10. Phallic Stage Conflict: Overt sexual behavior socially unacceptable
Fixation:
Vanity (excessive pride), narcissism, inability to love
By age 6, good sense of gender identity

11. 4. Latency Period No new developments – NO fixatıons
Age
Characteristics
5 – Puberty
Not a true stage – period of rest, calm
Sex instinct sublimated into school activities, hobbies, and sports
Focus on same sex friendships
Latency Period: 6 years to early teens
Period of relative calm, no new developmental conflicts
Ego and superego emerge
Attention is focused on other pursuits (intellectual or social)

12. Latency Stage making frriends Theme:
Psychosexual energy is channeled into academic and social pursuits
Conflicts and fixations do not occur during this stage
Freud failed to put focus on this important phase in life
making frriends
learning socialization
Developing study habits etc

13. Adolescence – Adulthood
5. Genital Period
Age
Characteristics
Adolescence – Adulthood
Libidinal energy organized around the genitals
Conforming to societal sanctions of sexual expression
Finding satisfaction in love & work
Focus committed adult relationships – warm and caring…
Sublimation via focus on achievement at work
Genital Stage: Late adolescence and adulthood
Libidinal energy organized around the genitals (if earlier stages have been successfully negotiatied)
Focus on mutual sexual gratification
Develop the ability to share in warm and caring relationships and have concern for other’s welfare
Demonstrate greater control over impulses

14. Genital Stage
Theme:
The individual gains satisfaction from mature sexual relationships
This stage is achieved if a person makes it through the other stages with enough available sexual energy
no strong fixations
“normal” (conventional) adult sexuality is viewed as the healthy outcome