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

Study Notes

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.