Sigmund Freud Stages of Psychosexual Development

Oral Stage (Birth - 18 months)

Child focused on oral pleasures. Too much or too little oral gratification results in preoccupational or stagnation in phase.

Anal Stage (18 months - 3 years)

Focus of pleasure is on eliminating and retaining feces. Because of stress from society and parents, child has to learn to control anal stimulation. Anal retention leads to cleanliness, anal expulsiveness leads to messiness.

Phallic Stage (3 years - 6 years)

Pleasure zone switches to genitals. Oedipus complex sets in, person has unconscious sexual desires for their mother, wishes to displace their fathers.

Latency Stage (6 years - puberty)

Sexual urges remain repressed, or unknown to conscious mind. Children interact and identify mostly with same sex peers.

Genital Stage (Puberty and on)

Adolescents direct their sexual urges toward opposite sex's genitals. Your personality is determined by what you believe gives you the best chance at mating.