MURRAY - PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDHOOD

• Drawing on Freud’s work, Murray divided childhood into 5 stages

  1. Claustral
  2. Oral
  3. Anal
  4. Urethral
  5. Genital
• Each stage is characterized by a pleasurable condition that is inevitable terminated by demands of society
• Each stage leaves its mark on our personality in the form of an unconscious complex that directs our later development