Process of Socialization

• The psychosexual energy


  Libido
• Is the driving force behind behavior

  Libido
• Suggested that personality is mostly established by th age of five


  Psychoanalytic theory
• Early experiences play a large role in personality development and continue to influence behavior later in life
• If certain issues are not resolved at the appropriate stage, fixations can occur
• A persistent focus on an earlier psychosexual stage

  Fixation
• Examples of Psychological Fixations

  1. Oral fixations
  2. Anal fixations
  3. Phallic fixations
• Oral Fixations

  1. smoking
  2. gum chewing
  3. nail biting
• Anal Fixations

  1. Orderliness
  2. Obsessiveness
  3. Rigidity
• Phallic Fixations

  1. vanity
  2. exhibitonism
  3. pride
• Stages of Socialization

  1. oral stage
  2. anal stage
  3. oedipal stage
  4. latency stage
  5. adolescence stage
• In oral stage, Freud called this stage as stage of "primary identification"
• people will always seek order and tidiness. These people are perfectionists

  Anal retentive
• people are messy, and careless. They usually do not show a great deal of self control

  Anal Expulsive