Freud's Psychosexual Development Stages

Sexual Development Across Life Stages

• Sexual development is an ongoing process throughout life, as named by Freud.

Freud's Theory of Psychosexual Development

• Freud's theory states that personality is established in the first years of life, and is challenging to alter after this period.
• Parents need to guide their child's behavior appropriately at each stage for the child to overcome developmental tasks.
• Freud divided psychosexual development into five stages occuring in age specific areas
• These stages reflect the needs of the ID and are orderly
• These stages cannot be separated, and each stage influences the following stage.

The Id, Ego, and Superego

• The id, ego, and superego make up the different layers of the human mind.
• Although close, each layer functions independently.
• The id is the source of pleasure and basic energy.
• Serving as the foundation, the id is selfish, primitive, and the source of basic needs, like hunger and sexuality.
• The ego acts as the reality principle, mediating the id's desires.
• Further, the ego uses defense mechanisms to achieve balance.
• It balances the id and superego
• The ego is linked to memory and helps with reality, defense, synthesis and intelligence.
• The superego embodies social conscience and internalized norms.
• Function: To resolve conflict, and keep tabs on the id.
• The superego keeps taboos alive

Freud’s Psychosexual Stages

• Oral Stage lasts from birth to 1.5 years, gratification centers on the mouth

• The child interacts with the world primarily through the mouth.

• The baby satisfies libido orally.

• Satisfaction comes from the mouth, lips, and tongue, and later the teeth and jaw.

• Developments such as communicating and toilet training occur during this stage.

• A satisfied baby develops trust in the outside world.

• Babies who form trusting relationships continue these types of relationships in later life.

• First sexual stimulation occurs while bathing, and during diaper changes.

• Movement of the diaper against genitals creates pleasurable sensations

• Babies may explore and touch their genitals creating enjoyable sensation again.

• Baby boys are naturally more attracted to and play with their penises, but it is less common for baby girls to play with their own clitoris.

• All this is normal behavior.

• If a baby has problems during this time will experience trust issues later on in adulthood

• Anal Stage: 1.5 to 3 years, Satisfaction comes from controlling bowel movements.

• Focus shifts from the mouth to the anus

• Voluntary spinster muscle control enables children to move from passive to active

• Anus is the focal point of pleasure

• Children learn independence, as well as struggle for control with parents

• They also learn pick/throw, hold/release.

• They feel happy when they hold or do not releases faeces

• The child determining whether to defecate or not

• Controlling bowels and doing the will of others is very enjoyable and attracts attention

• Children learn to understand concepts like good/bad, white/wrong, and shameful depending on how their potty training develops

• Potty training style is import

• Shouting, hitting, and punishing will now work

• The child will try again but has a sense of guilt

• This will teach them not to be shameful about sexuality, and help them communicate better when older.

• Proper resolution yields autonomy and entrepreneurial spirit.

• Fixation results from overly rigid parenting.

• A mother is rigid and pressured attitude during toilet training can manifest as stubbornness or self-contempt when older/ and or very organised later in life

• Phallic Stage: 3-6 years, Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings

• Children perceive and begin to understand the difference in the sexes at age 3.

• Children start to ask and understand the different between boys and girls

• Sex organs become of great interest at this time

• Parents should refer to these parts by the correct terms so the child learns these facts correctly

• The 5 most important rules during this period include:

  • A child believes what I think everyone can see
  • A child believes what the action is also the action
  • If a child only thinks about it then it means that they did it
  • If a child thinks about it then this means that they are guilty
  • A child is guilty, then this means that they will be punished

• Important they feel like parents want to be with them

• Latency Stage: (6-12 years old) Children withdraw from sexual pleasure Withdrawal from sexual pleasure

• The oedipal complex resolves and sexual drive becomes inactive

• This period combines sexuality and gender roles

• Kids learn to control themselves and helps them grow

• This phase is for learning and the child is directed to different aspects of life rather than sex

• Genital Stage:

• From age 12-18 years old, Children go through puberty and sexuality becomes more pronounces

• The genitals become the focus of stimulation once again

• Oedipus Complex and Electra Complex

• Boys feel special connection with their mothers, like they can relate to them

• Also the boy sees his father as a threat

• The penis is very important for a child at this time, it symbolises who the child is

• If the oedipal complex don’t go well they have unconscious fantasy such as sexual thoughts

• How to fix this

  • If mom and dad love each other and express this out load make boy feel better
  • You need to make sure that there is a balance, and not get in the way

• Must feel like you can detach from both parents • Not be too over bearing sexual life

• Electra complex

• A female child admires her father and shows jealousy towards her mother.

• There can be intensified sexual and aggressive feelings

• Daughter is too distance herself with the child not to be lost in those feelings

• There is 5 condition but they need to find there way to attach to their family and not too devalue their partners

• Symptoms from getting help in later years:

  • Inability to love
  • Anxiety

• Things that affect:

  • Marriage
  • The wife being pregnant
  • Child birth
  • Change in partners

Adolescent Period

• Adolescence: The period of physical and mental changes to help them grow
• Physical changes to make the sexual more developed

Early Adolescence

• Age 11-15 , Physical and mental health changes
• Feel lost in their body, and hard yo keep up with the constant changes, low self esteem

Middle

• physical changes are almost done a personality begins to develop during this time, and understand who they are as a person
• Feel safe and the fear stops , they are more likely to experiment such as drugs sex ect ect

Late Adolescence

• Start to understand who they are inside.
• The doubt of body imagine disappears

Female Adult Sexuality

• After have regular relationships the woman goes through a sexual role
• Woman have safe sex and active

Adult Woman

• In some countries they don’t have sex until adult hood.
• After there are able to get to know their body their desire grows

Infertility sex life can affect during

• Sexual life with pergnantcy and after child birth has not to stop but it is not a topic of conversion

• It needs to be a conversation with the doctor if it becomes a problem

• Don’t focus on pregnancy but on intimacy (kissing. Caressing ect)

• Is sexual is harm the baby that a myth, but if high risk stay away from sexual intourse

• High risk

  • Repeated mis carriages ect
  • Child came from being still birth -In that case is more recommend to stop it, pergnantcy can be difficult

• Doctor will only give advise but never tell u to stop

• What is lohusatul

• After your kid comes , and have some prejudices and has to rest for a whole 40 days

• What’s makes it hard for the woman is the horames changing and hard with the child to have any sexual urge and want

• Hard to see her selife beautiful

• How couples who have difficult getting pregnant find sex less fun

• It make’s it hard to the marring because it doesn’t not happen naturally

• How the couple acts when there isn’t a baby

  • They fell guilt and are disappointed

• Woman starts to thing of all different problems that might be affecting them and why there are not able to.

• Main thing you come face is anxiety, feeling that you are not goof enough-ect

Important problem with the womes with that: Sexual problem high Problems getting arousing And have difficulties having sex

• For the man there goes through

• Erecto functional problems

• Problems ejaculate

• All these things they want

• To find out if you have infection , or the woman needs to figure out why they don’t enjoy sex and help them

• If they want to use drugs you have to study if they need it or not , but only if it is required