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Sigmund Freud’s theory of

psychosexual development

Biography

Family:

-He is the oldest of eight children.

-His father was a wool merchant.

-When he was four years old his family

moved to Vienna.

-His father had a good sense of humor.

-His mother was twenty one when she had

him.

Biography

Work:

-He worked with hysterical patients in Vienna.

-He made ideas for treatment of mental Illness.

• His most important writing’s were: The Interpretation of dreams, three essays on the theory of sexuality, Totem and Taboo, Introductory lectures on psychoanalysis, The Ego and the Id, and civilization and its Discontents.

Biography

Notable Facts:

-He was born May 6th, 1856.

-He was born in Freiberg in Moravia.

-He discovered that he had cancer of the mouth in

-He was Jewish.

-During the war he escaped to England with his wife and children.

-He passed away from cancer in 1939.

The Oral Stage

The oral stage

• Starts from birth until 18 months
• The focus of pleasure is the mouth. i.e.: Sucking and teething
• When the child is being nursed it gives him the psychological pleasure of being cared for, mothered and held.
• Later they are likely to retain a life long desire to bite things, such as: chewing on the ends of pencils or pens, gum and biting nails.

The anal stage

• Begins at 18 months
• The child’s natural focus of pleasure is the

anus and bodily functions.

• When the child begins to toilet training.
• This stage lasts between one and two

years of age.

The Phallic Stage

The Latency Stage

The Latency Stage

• This stage lasts between five and seven

years old until around puberty.

• During this stage their earlier focus is

repressed.

• School, athletics, and same sex

friendships is the main focus.

The genital Stage

• This stage begins at puberty and

continues through their adolescence.

• Their energy is once again back to being

focused on the genitals

• mainly the focus of pleasure is in sexual

intercourse.

The Critics

• There were a lot of feminist groups that didn’t approve on his views, but there was one in particular named Karen Horney.
• Karen Horney thought that he had difficulty incorporating female desire into his theories.
• He thought that girls had “male envy” , however Karen Horney thought that girls had “power envy” during the psychosexual development.
• The most controversial stage is the Phallic stage. People didn’t agree with his theory on how the children connect with their parents.

Video

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvOoYX

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References

• http://www.saidaonline.com/en/newsgfx/teenagers-saidaonline.gif
• http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/freud.html
• http://www.psychotherapy.ro/resources/constructs/psych osexual-development-criticism-of-freuds-theory-of- psychosexual-development/
• http://www.victorianweb.org/science/freud/develop.html