Fixation psychology

• Some people can’t leave one stage and proceed to the other
• One reason for this may be because the needs for the developing individual at that time may not have been adequately met, in which case there is frustration
• Or maybe a persons needs have been met so well that they are reluctant To leave the psychological benefits of a particular stage in which there is overindulgence
• Latency stage: libido is dispersed across the body and previous conflicts, desires and memories from early childhood are repressed into the unconscious
• Genital stage: the point of puberty and desire is now conscious and in the final adult form