Pyschosexual theory by Sigmund Freud

• Development of personality based on sexuality. Psychosexual Theory
• Freud's Stages of Psychosexual Theory

  Oral Stage

  Anal Stage

  Phallic Stage

  Latency Stage

  Genital Stage
• pleasure area: erogenous zone
• oral stage: mouth; anal: ___ anus
• Failure to satisfy the needs. fixation
• A type of personality which has a stronger tendency to smoke, drink, alcohol, overeat. Oral receptive
• A tendency to bite his or her nails or use curse words or even gossip. Oral aggressive
• The child find satisfaction in eliminating and retaining feces. Anal stage
• an obsession with cleanliness, perfection, and control. Anal retentive
• the person becomes messy and disorganized. Anal expulsive
• The pleasure or erogenous zone is the genital (self). Phallic
• boys develop unconscious sexual desire for their mother - Oedipus complex
• girls develop unconscious sexual desire for their father - Electra complex
• During this stage that sexual urges remain repressed. Latency stage
• Begins at the start of puberty when sexual urges are again awakened. Genital stage
• Pleasure area of Genital stage is Genitals (opposite sex)
• Pleasure principle: Id; Reality principle: ___ ego
• morality principle: ___ Superego
• Freud believes that most of what influences us is our environment. Unconscious
• Aware of are stored in our conscious mind. Conscious
• This is part of us that we can reach if prompted but is not in our active conscious. Subconscious