Subject : Child And Adolescent Development Freuds Stages of Psychosexual Development

Reported by: Analiza Z. Macalalad

Oral Stage (birth to 18 Months): The Erogenous zone is
the mouth. Child becomes focused on oral pleasures
Freuds Psychoanalytic Theory such as (sucking).Too much or too little satisfaction can
Sigmund Freud lead to an Oral Fixation or Oral Personality which is
(May 6, 1856-September 23, 1939) shown in an increased focus on oral activities. This type
My Life is interesting only if it is related to of personality may be oral receptive, that is, have a
psychoanalysis Freud 1884 stronger tendency to smoke, drink alcohol, overeat, or
an Austrian neurologist known as the Father of oral aggressive, that is, with a tendency to bite his or
Psychoanalysis her nails, or use curse words or even gossip.

first born in a Viennese Family o f three boys and the
five girls
earned his medical degree at University of Vienna and
attained a prestigious position there as a lecturer at the
age of 26
married to Martha Bernays and had 6 children (the
youngest of whom, Anna, was to herself become a
distinguished psychoanalyst
Anal Stage (18 months to 3 years). The childs focus of
pleasure in this stage is the anus. The Childs Finds
Satisfaction in eliminating and retaining feces. Through
Societys expectations, particularly the parent, the child
needs to work on toilet training. Fixation here can lead
to perfectionism, a need to control called anal
retentive or alternatively the opposite; messy and
disorganized called anal impulsive.

experienced numerous psychosomatic disorders in his Phallic Stage (ages 3 to 6). The pleasure or erogenous
early 40s zone is genitals .During he pre-school age, children
become interested in what makes boys and girls
developed a cancer of the jaw and died in London in
different . Preschoolers will sometimes be seen
1939
fondling their genitals.