freud theory
Stage
Age Range
Erogenous zone
Consequences of psychologic fixation
Oral
Birth–1 year
Mouth
Orally aggressive: chewing gum and the ends of pencils, etc.
Orally Passive: smoking, eating, kissing, oral sexual practices[4]
Oral stage fixation might result in a passive, gullible, immature, manipulative personality.
Anal
1–3 years
Bowel and bladderelimination
Anal retentive: Obsessively organized, or excessively neat
Anal expulsive: reckless, careless, defiant, disorganized, coprophiliac
Phallic
3–6 years
Genitalia
Oedipus complex (in boys and girls); according to Sigmund Freud.
Electra complex (in girls); according to Carl Jung.
Latency
6–puberty
Dormant sexual feelings
Sexual unfulfillment if fixation occurs in this stage.
Genital
Puberty–death
Sexual interests mature
Frigidity, impotence, unsatisfactory relationships
In Freudian psychology, psychosexual development is a central element of thepsychoanalytic sexual drive theory, that human beings, from birth, possess an instinctuallibido (sexual energy) that develops in five stages. Each stage – the oral, the anal, thephallic, the latent, and the genital – is characterized by the erogenous zone that is the source of the libidinal drive. Sigmund Freud proposed that if the child experienced sexual frustration in relation to any psychosexual developmental stage, s/he would experienceanxiety that would persist into adulthood as a neurosis, a functional mental disorder
Oral stage[
The first stage of psychosexual development is the oral stage, spanning from birth until the age of two years, where in the infant's mouth is the focus of libidinal gratification derived from the pleasure of feeding at the mother's breast, and from the oral exploration of his or her environment, i.e. the tendency to place objects in the mouth. The id dominates, because neither the ego nor the super ego is yet fully developed, and, since the infant has no personality (identity), every action is
Age Range
Erogenous zone
Consequences of psychologic fixation
Oral
Birth–1 year
Mouth
Orally aggressive: chewing gum and the ends of pencils, etc.
Orally Passive: smoking, eating, kissing, oral sexual practices[4]
Oral stage fixation might result in a passive, gullible, immature, manipulative personality.
Anal
1–3 years
Bowel and bladderelimination
Anal retentive: Obsessively organized, or excessively neat
Anal expulsive: reckless, careless, defiant, disorganized, coprophiliac
Phallic
3–6 years
Genitalia
Oedipus complex (in boys and girls); according to Sigmund Freud.
Electra complex (in girls); according to Carl Jung.
Latency
6–puberty
Dormant sexual feelings
Sexual unfulfillment if fixation occurs in this stage.
Genital
Puberty–death
Sexual interests mature
Frigidity, impotence, unsatisfactory relationships
In Freudian psychology, psychosexual development is a central element of thepsychoanalytic sexual drive theory, that human beings, from birth, possess an instinctuallibido (sexual energy) that develops in five stages. Each stage – the oral, the anal, thephallic, the latent, and the genital – is characterized by the erogenous zone that is the source of the libidinal drive. Sigmund Freud proposed that if the child experienced sexual frustration in relation to any psychosexual developmental stage, s/he would experienceanxiety that would persist into adulthood as a neurosis, a functional mental disorder
Oral stage[
The first stage of psychosexual development is the oral stage, spanning from birth until the age of two years, where in the infant's mouth is the focus of libidinal gratification derived from the pleasure of feeding at the mother's breast, and from the oral exploration of his or her environment, i.e. the tendency to place objects in the mouth. The id dominates, because neither the ego nor the super ego is yet fully developed, and, since the infant has no personality (identity), every action is