psychosexual stages

• stages

  1. Oral (0–1)
  2. Anal (1-3)
  3. Phallic (3-6)
  4. Latency (6-12)
  5. Genital (12+)
• genital 


  conscious of sexual desires

  puberty
• latency 


  earlier conflicts repressed
• phallic 


  (pleasure on genital)

  if not resolved it leads too phallic personality
• anal


  pleasure on anus

  if unresolved it leads to anal retentive / explulsive
• oral


  pleasure on mouth

  if unresolved it leads to oral fixation (smoking / biting nails)
• oedipus

  • boys have feelings towards mother
  • hatred towards father
  • develops in phallic stage
  • fear of castration represses feelings
  • copies fathers actions and values instead
• electra complex

  • penis envy
  • girls desire father
  • hate mother
  • identifies with mother instead
  • replaces desire for father with desire for baby
• weaknesses of electra complex

  researcher bias - freud applied theory to girls because of criticism

  didn’t give it much thought
• Little Hans


  Oedipus complex

  had phobia of horses

  symbolic of fear of father and castration