Psychosexual stages

• What is the first stage?

  Oral stage
• What age is the oral stage?

  0-1 years
• What is the oral stage?

  Focus on pleasure in the mouth, e.g. mother's breast can be the object of desire
• What is the consequence of unresolved conflict in the oral stage?

  Oral fixation: smoking, nail biting, sarcastic and critical
• What is the 2nd stage?

  Anal
• When is the anal stage?

  1-3 years
• What is the focus of the anal stage?

  Pleasure in the anus, child gains pleasure from witholding and expelling faeces
• What is the consequence of unresolved conflict in the anal stage?

  Anal retentive -> Perfectionist + obsessive

  Anal expulsive -> Thoughtless + messy
• What is the 3rd stage?

  Phallic stage
• What age is the phallic stage?

  3-6 years
• What is the focus in the phallic stage?

  Genital area
• What is the consequence of unresolved conflict in the phallic stage?

  Narcissitic and reckless peronality
• What is the 4th stage?

  Latency
• What is the latency stage?

  Where earlier conflicts are repressed
• What is the 5th stage?

  Gential stage
• What occurs in the genital stage?

  Sexual desires become concious alongside the onset of puberty
• What is the consequence of unresolved conflict in the genital stage?

  Difficulty forming heterosexual relationships