How Much Do You Know About Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory?

• Freudian psychology is based on psychosexual development and the sexual drive theory.
• Personality is developed through childhood stages focused on erogenous areas.
• There are five psychosexual stages: oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital.
• Fixation can occur if a child is unsatisfied at any stage, resulting in a neurosis in adulthood.
• Freud believed adult neurosis is rooted in childhood sexuality.
• Infants can derive sexual pleasure from any part of their body.
• The oral stage is focused on the mouth and weaning is a key experience.
• The anal stage is focused on the anus and toilet training is a key experience.
• The phallic stage is focused on genitalia and involves the Oedipus and Electra complexes.
• The Oedipus complex involves a boy's competition with his father for possession of his mother.
• Sigmund Freud's theory of psychosexual development consists of five stages: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital.
• The oral stage occurs from birth to 18 months and centers around the mouth as the primary erogenous zone.
• The anal stage occurs from 18 months to three years and centers around the anus as the primary erogenous zone.
• The phallic stage occurs from three to six years and centers around the genitals as the primary erogenous zone.
• Boys experience castration anxiety and develop the Oedipus complex, while girls experience penis envy and develop the Electra complex.
• Karen Horney disputed Freud's theory of penis envy and proposed the concept of womb envy.
• Defense mechanisms such as repression and identification provide temporary solutions to the id-ego conflict.
• The latency stage occurs from six years until puberty and consolidates character habits developed in earlier stages.
• The genital stage occurs from puberty through adult life and represents the detachment and independence from parents.
• Freud's theory has been criticized for being sexist, phallocentric, and not universally applicable to all cultures.
• ty traits derived from childhood.

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