2. 1. Oral Stage
2. Anal Stage
3. Phallic Stage
4. Latency Stage
5. Genital Stage

3. 1. Oral stage - 1st year
Receive pleasure through their mouths(food). If a child’s needs are not met
they become fixated=stuck in this stage.
- Adults, fixated in this stage, may overeat, smoke, or other excessive oral problems.

4. 2. Anal stage yrs.
Children learn their ability to control certain bodily functions.
• Conflict during this stage leads to two set of adult personalities:
• Anal retentive - clean,
stubborn & compulsive
• Anal expulsive - reckless,
careless, unorganized

5. 3. Phallic Stage 3 - 5 yrs - Children notice gender differences.
- Penis Envy - Girls envy boys thus, want
phallic things
- attached to parent of opposite sex
- see same sex parent as rival.
- Oedipus conflict - Electra complex
Identification - Boys assume the behavior of
their fathers.
Reasons:
1. become like people they fear so no conflict
2. so mother will love boy like she loves father
Fixation: confused sexual identity, reckless,
narcissistic

6. 5. Genital stage - Puberty –
4. Latency yrs
Children repress all their aggressive urges & channel them into school, athletics, friends
5. Genital stage - Puberty –
Puberty makes people more aware of gender identity, but earlier conflicts reappear.
- strong interest in opposite sex

7. Activities/Sources of Pleasure
Freud’s Five Stages
of Development
Study Chart
Name
Date
Period
Stage
Age
Activities/Sources of Pleasure
Result of
Fixation
Oral
Anal
bowel and bladder control
Phallic
Latency
5-6 years
None
Genital