Freud's proposed theory indicates that the psychosexual stages are known as oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages, which profoundly make up a person’s personality. “These are called psychosexual stages because each stage represents the fixation of libido (roughly translated as sexual drives or instincts) on a different area of the body.” (Saul McLeod, 2008) Concerning the oral, anal, phallic, and genital stages it is believed that if there is an overindulgence or lack of indulgence, people’s psychological development is influenced. The conflicts presented in each psychosexual stage must first be satisfied before a character can move to the next stage, and too much stimulation in one stage or not enough stimulation can define one’s …show more content…
Inherently representing the conflict between the id, which is the natural impulse of ridding bodily waste, and the “ego and superego, which represent the practical and societal pressures to control the bodily functions.” (Stevenson, 2000) According to Freud’s Psychosexual Theory, there are two types of personalities that can branch, “anal-retentive personality” or “anal-expulsive personality.” Anal-retentive personality” in which a parent is strict with toilet disciplining would make a child inherently obsessively organized, neat, disciplined, methodical, systematic and more passive-aggressive. On the other hand, “anal-expulsive” which is when a parent is too lenient in toilet disciplining would lead to an unorganized, thoughtless, inconsiderate, and rebellious, bold personality. This stage lasts until three years old in which the next stage takes over. (McLeod, …show more content…
In this stage, a child starts to become more aware of its genitals and that of others. The phallic stage introduces the “Oedipus complex” in males and “Electra complex” in females. Other psychologists disagree with this stage. The theory of these complexes is the desire to be with the opposite sex parent and eliminating the same sex parent. The Oedipus conflict is a young males desire for his mother and sees his father as his rival, stopping him from being with his mother, henceforth, giving him the desire to take his father out of the picture. However, he is overwhelmed with castration anxiety, which is the fear he has toward his father if his father is to find out and castrates him. This fear forces him to suppress his desire toward his mother, and he then sets out to resolve his castration anxiety problem, which is called identification. To do this, the boy starts copying actions and adopts his father’s behaviors, in a way to identify himself as a man. On the other hand, the Electra complex is where a girl suffers from penis envy where she shifts her attachment from her mother to her father, and in turn, blames her mother for lack of male genitals. The girl hopes that she can have a male child to satisfy her penis envy. Eventually, the phase resolves, and the girl accepts that she doesn't have male genitalia. The phallic stage lasts from three years old till five or six years old. (Stevenson,
The first stage of psychosexual development begins at birth and continues until the age of one and a half. The erogenous zone of this stage is the mouth in which is satisfied by food and water. Too much or too little attention to the infant can cause problems for then. There are two types of character types that result from individuals whom are fixated at the oral stage; oral receptive character and oral aggressive character. The oral receptive character is from too much attention, they become dependent on others for the fulfillment of their needs. In contrast, the oral aggressi...
VIII. the Oedipus complex occurs during the phallic stage of psychosexual development. a boy's decisive psychosexual experience is the Oedipus complex son–father competition for possession of mother. In third stage of psychosexual development that the child's genitalia are his or her primary erogenous zone; thus, when children become aware of their bodies, the bodies of other children, and the bodies of their parents, they gratify physical curiosity by undressing and exploring themselves, so learning the anatomic differences between the gender differences between boy and girl.
Through case study, the psychodynamic approach was developed by Sigmund Freud. Freud visited Charcot’s, a laboratory in Paris investigating people suffering from hysteria. There, Freud began patient case studies (Crain, p. 254). Freud developed 5 stages of human development known as the Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency and Genital stages. The Oral stage is from the ages of birth to 18 months. This stage engages in oral activities such as sucking. Next the Anal stage begins around age 18 months to 3 years of age. Freud suggests that during the Anal stage a child focuses on the pleasure of purging from the rectal area. The Phallic stages, none as the masturbation stage, when a child get’s pleasure from focusing on his genital areas usually happens during ages 3 years to 6 years of age. After the Phallic stage come the Latency stages. Latency is when children at the ages of 6 to 12 years old work to develop cognitive and interpersonal skills suppressing sexual interests but those 12 years and older fall into the Genital stages. During the Genital stage those suppressed sexual interests re-occur and the need to find gratification dependent on finding a partner (Craig & Dunn, p 12)
The Phallic Stage =) the child learn to differentiate between the male and the female gender and becomes aware of sexuality. He clarified during that stage a child experience the Oedipus complex, meaning that young boys have very strong feelings toward their mother and as a result, they developed jealousy toward their father. They feeling can be so strong that they want to kill their father. The Elektra complex which reveals girl attraction for the father will result in a feeling of distaste for toward their mother.
In Sigmund Freud’s “Sexual Morality and Modern Nervousness”, contained in Sexuality and the Psychology of Love, the writer presents separate roles for men and women as it relates to sexuality, even referring to a “double code of morality” (22) for the genders. In his paper the former often takes the role of the subject while the former becomes the object. In fact, women are described as the “true sexual guardians of the race” glorified, it seems, instead of truly studied. However, in one particular section of the essay, Freud turns his focus onto the female sexuality. In specific he references the various factors that, in his eyes, can influence the female sexual formation. The primary influences being that of the society, primarily the institution of marriage, and that of the family, which would include both a woman’s parents and children. After discussing these elements, Freud then
Essentially, a boy feels like he is competing with his father for possession of his mother. He views his father as a rival for her attention and affection. In psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex refers to the child’s desire for sexual involvement with the opposite sex parent, usually a boy’s erotic attention to his mother (Wood et al, 366). Freud’s complex is named after a character in an ancient tragedy, Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. The main character accidently kills his father and marries his mother. But when it is referencing to females, the complex is called the Elektra complex, it is also after a similar play but a woman is the main character. These plays were popular during the 19th century in Europe, and Freud believed their popularity was because of the repeating theme, love for one’s opposite-sex parent. This represented a universal conflict that all human beings must resolve early on in their development (Cherry). With this assumption, Freud claimed that during the phallic stage, boys seek their mother’s attention and behave in a hostile way towards their fathers. Usually, boys resolve the Oedipus complex by identifying with his father and suppressing his sexual feelings for his
The anal stage is the second psychosexual stage and it occurs from eighteen months to three year olds. In this stage, the erogenous zone is the anus where a person can gain a fixation by either holding on or letting go while being toilet trained when they are in this stage. In this stage, the conscious level that develops is the ego which is the reality principle which is present in all levels of personality. The ego is present to contain the impulses given by the ID and to express them in a more socially acceptable manner. The ego gives a delayed gratification instead of instant gratification like the ID does. The trait that can be developed with an anal fixation is the anal retentive trait. When someone is anal retentive they are stubborn, controlling, extremely clean and a perfectionist. These traits can clearly be seen in the clips “Democracy” and “Sandwich”. In democracy, as previously discussed above, Sheldon shows his controlling and perfectionist personalist when he orders the entire group to go on the train instead of the airplane like the rest of the group wanted. In Sandwich, he ordered a sandwich and he got exactly what he wanted, but in the wrong order. They had put the cheese and lettuce in the wrong order so he just decides not to eat it. This clip exemplifies his stubbornness and perfectionist personality. This personality is actually the one that can be seen in every single clip, thus being his main
Freud emphasized that early childhood experiences are important to the development of the adult personality, proposing that childhood development took place over five stages; oral, anal. Phallic, latent and genital. The phallic stage is the most important stage which contains the Oedipus complex. This is where the child (age 4 - 6 yrs) posses the opposite sex parent and wants rid of the same sex parent. Freud argued that if the conflict is not resolved in childhood then it could cau...
Freud emphasizes on the life history of individuals. As a result, he created 3 parts of human personalities. The first one being Id which is the largest portion of the mind. This portion is unconscious which results in being present at birth. The next one is ego; this portion is conscious and begins to emerge in early infancy. Lastly is superego which is the conscience. This part begins to develop from ages three to six. Freud also explains the five psychosexual stages which are oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. “Psychoanalytic theory suggested that personality is mostly established by the age of five.” (Cherry, n.d.). All five psychosexual stages help establish a personality at a young age.
During this stage focus on the development when one starts to show interest in their sexual body parts, gender identity, the first interest in the opposite sex. Freud states that children during this stage often struggle with desires toward their parents of the opposite sex. During this stage children develop a curiosity towards their genitals and my also learn that the there is a difference in size among each individual. Freud developed the term Oedipus and Electra complex, which described the difference in the phallic stage between male and females. Oedipus, which refers to the story of how a man killed his father unknowingly and eventually marrying his own mother that he was also unaware of. Freud states that during the phallic stage boys fall in love with their mothers, they view their mothers as love objects. Though Freud emphasizes that boys saw mothers as love object he had a different opinion of girls and fathers. He referred to the Electra complex as girl seeking for their father’s attentions and openly seeks their father’s approval. I would say Freud might be the cause of the terms mamma’s boy and daddy’s girl. The oral, anal and phallic stage plays major parts of development especially in the development of trust, gender identity, positive and negative emotions. Freud stresses that during this stage it’s important for parents to respond positively to children during this time where sexuality will be
From a Freudian perspective, human development is based on psychosexual theory (Wedding & Corsini, 2014). Psychosexual theory indicates that maturation of the sex drives underlies stages of personality development (Shaffer et al., 2010). It was Freud’s perspective that there are three components of personality (the id, ego, and superego) that become integrated into his five stage theoretical model. The id was the biological or drive component that is innate from birth. The sole purpose of the Id is satiate an individual’s internal drives (Wedding & Corsini, 2014). The ego is the conscious portion of our personality that mediates between our id and superego. Throughout development the ego reflects the child’s emerging ability to...
In childhood, sexual development undergoes three phases each which mark the strong libidinal of a vital zone of the organism as mentioned by Erickson. The oral phase involves respiratory and the sensory stage. The anal phase involving the urethral and the muscular stage. The phallic phases involves the genital and locomotor stage. The 8 stages of personality are both psychosexual and epigenetic. It is psychosexual in the Freudian sense of the term and epigenetic in the sense of unfolding in a genetically predetermined way. Each stage is characterized by a psychosexual problem or a crisis. Each crisis is brought by an increasing physiological maturity. The results become in greater demands by parents
For Freud, psychosexual theory occurred when personality arises, as it tries to resolve conflicts between unconscious sexual and aggressive impulses and the societal demands to suppress these impulses. In general, psychoanalytic theorists are permeated with notions of human development, and how the child changes during the course of his maturation in an explicit and implicit perspective.
Sigmund Freud proposed a theory of psychoanalytic development; he stated that early childhood experiences and practices affect later development in adulthood. Freud’s stages of psychosexual development comprised of five stages: the oral stage (0 – 1 year), the anal stage (1 – 3 years), the phallic stage (3 – 6 years), the latency period (6 – puberty) and the genital stage (puberty –
The theory does a good job at delineating the stages of psychosexual development; our childhood has a great influence on our personalities. Referring to Freud’s ‘psychosexual stages’, it is very clear that parents’ role in an infant’s life is the foremost step to structure the personality. Not to forget, the oral and anal stages are focal fundamental to character traits in a person’s behavior. The inner ‘instincts’ of sexuality and aggression meeting with the socially acceptable norms creates a conflict zone, wherein it is decided what we are to do and what we would become.