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Psychosexual stages |
The childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones. |
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Fixation |
According to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved |
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Erogenous zone |
Are of the body that produces pleasurable feeling become important and can become source of conflicts. |
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Oral Stage |
(Frued) The first sexual and social stage of an infant’s development (from about age 0 to 1). Libidinal energy is centered around the mouth. |
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Anal Stage |
Second stage occurring from about 1 or 1 1/2 years of age, in which the anus is the erogenous zone and toilet training is the source of conflict |
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Phallic stage |
third stage occurring from about 3-6 of age in which the child discovers sexual feelings |
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Latency stage |
Freud’s fourth stage of psychosexual development where sexuality is repressed in the unconscious and children focus on identifying with their same sex parent and interact with same sex peers. |
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Genital stage |
Fifth stage, adolescence to death…. As the adolescent reaches physical sexual maturity, the genitals become the primary focus of pleasurable sensations, which the person seeks to satisfy in heterosexual relationships. |
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