Influnce of childhood experience

• Freud believed that events in childhood shape our adult personality.
• Psychological development in childhood takes place through 5 (psychosexual) stages: Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, and Genital.
• Each stage in Freud's psychoanalytic theory represents the focus of the libido.
• Problems at any stage in Freud's psychoanalytic theory can lead to a fixation.
• A fixation in Freud's psychoanalytic theory can lead to problems in adulthood.
• A fixation can occur at any stage in Freud's psychoanalytic theory through frustration or overindulgence.
• Frustration in Freud's psychoanalytic theory occurs when the stage has not been resolved because the needs have not been met.
• Overindulgence in Freud's theory is where the needs of the child have been more than satisfied and the child feels reluctant to move to the next stage.