Sigmund Freud
5 Psychosexual Stages
Oral Stage:
Age&Pleasure: 1-18 months *mouth (sucking, biting, chewing)
Description: Born with powerful and aggressive urges.
Anal Stage:
Age&Pleasure: 18 months- 3 years *bowel and bladder
Description: through toilet training the child learns to learn freedom and establish social control.
Phallic Stage:
Age&Pleasure: 3-6 years *genitals
Description: Boys become infatuated with their mothers and girls with their fathers.
Latency Stage:
Age&Pleasure: 6 years to puberty *none (dormant)
Description: Sublimation (redirecting sexual impulses into learning new tasks), focuses on social and intellectual skills.
Genital Stage:
Age&Pleasure: from puberty on *genitals
Description: Sexual desires are renewed in individuals, begins seeking relationships with others.
Oral Stage:
Age&Pleasure: 1-18 months *mouth (sucking, biting, chewing)
Description: Born with powerful and aggressive urges.
Anal Stage:
Age&Pleasure: 18 months- 3 years *bowel and bladder
Description: through toilet training the child learns to learn freedom and establish social control.
Phallic Stage:
Age&Pleasure: 3-6 years *genitals
Description: Boys become infatuated with their mothers and girls with their fathers.
Latency Stage:
Age&Pleasure: 6 years to puberty *none (dormant)
Description: Sublimation (redirecting sexual impulses into learning new tasks), focuses on social and intellectual skills.
Genital Stage:
Age&Pleasure: from puberty on *genitals
Description: Sexual desires are renewed in individuals, begins seeking relationships with others.
Additional information about Frued's life
- His family was Jewish but he considered himself to be atheist
- Born in what is today's Czech Republic
- Founder of psychoanalysis