Sigmund Freud

Speciality of Sigmund Freud

Psychosexual personality development

Psychosexual personality development

Fixations or unresolved conflicts in any stage can affect personality later in life

5 stages of Freud’s psychosexual personality development

• Oral

• Anal

• Phallic

• Latency

• Genital

Oral stage

• Birth to 18 months

• Explore surrounding with mouth

• Over indulgence leads to dependency

• Under indulgence leads to aggressiveness

Overindulgence in oral

Dependency

Underindulgence in oral

Aggressiveness

Anal stage

• 1 to 2 years

• Development of ego and control

• Anal retention leads to excessive use of self control

• Anal expulsiveness leads to impulsiveness

Anal retention

Excessive use of self control

Anal expulsiveness

Impulsiveness

Phallic stage

• 2 to 5 years

• Discovering what makes boy and girl different and attraction to parent of opposite sex with jealousy

• Oedipus complex is when boys have castration anxiety

• Electra complex is when girl have penis envy

Oedipus complex

Boys have castration anxiety

Electra complex

Girls have penis envy

Latency

• 5 to 12 years

• Idolization to opposite sex Instead of sexual impulses and development of gender roles and norms

Gential

• Puberty through adulthood

• Sexual maturity and the development of healthy adult relationships