psychosexual stages of development

• psychosexual stages of development:

  • Oral
  • Anal
  • Phallic
  • Latent
  • Genital
• How to remember stages - Old Age Pensioners Like Guiness
• Fixation - any of the psychosexual stages not completed successfully Fixation at stage occurs

  If over or under stimulated you become fixated at stage
• Oral stage:

  • Age Range - 0-18 months
  • Erogenous Zone - mouth
  • pleasure gained by - sucking
  • Major development - feeding
• Oral stage consequences of fixation - smoking, biting nails, sarcastic, critical
• Oral stage application - breast fed baby be overstimulated than a bottle fed baby (more sucking)
• Anal stage:

  • Age range - 18 months - 3 years
  • erroneous Zone - Anus
  • Pleasure gained by - 'Thee power of poo'
  • major development - potty training
• Anal stage application - children become curious about their poo

  too much curiosity lead to overstimulation

  too little curiosity lead to under stimulation
• anal stage consequences of fixation - retentive - perfectionist, obsessive

  expulsive - thoughtless, messy
• Phalic stage:

  • Age range - 3-6 years
  • Eroginous zone - Genitals
  • pleasure gained by - attraction
  • major development - Oeddipus complex (boys) Electra complex (girls)
• Phalic stage: Oedipus complex - only in boys

  son attracted to mother but fears father

  fears father may castrate them

  wishes to kill father, feels guilt

  relieve guild identifies with father

  resolution is by identifying with same sex parent
• phalic stage: Electra complex - only happens in girls

  girls develop penis envy and blame mother for this

  daughter feels attracted to father

  substitutes penis envy with wish for a child

  leads to kind of resolution and identification with same sex parent
• phalic stage consequences of fixation - narcissistic, reckless, possibly homosexual
• Latent stage:

  • age range- 5 years - pubity
  • erogenous zone - None
  • pleasure gained by - None
  • major developments - rest period - attention is on external things, such as starting school
• Latent stage fixation - can not get fixated at this stage
• Genital stage:

  • Age range - purity - 18 years
  • Eroginous zone - Genitals
  • pleasure gained by - attraction
  • major development - peer relationships
• genital stage fixation - difficult forming heterosexual relationships