psychosexual stages
Oral, anal, phallic
Psychosexual stages are the phases of childhood development in Freudian psychology, each centered on a different erogenous zone: oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital.
Freud believed that fixation at any stage—through frustration or overindulgence—shapes adult personality and neurosis.
The theory remains influential in psychoanalytic thought, though largely rejected by modern psychology: He attributed her compulsive neatness to anal-stage fixation.
- idUnconscious instinctual drives
- egoOne's self-image
- mouthOral opening
- anusPosterior digestive opening
- libidoInnate erotic drive
erogenous · fixation · emotional development · superego · repression · Sigmund Freud · latency · oral stage · genitals · penis envy · castration anxiety · unconscious mind · cognitive development · anal stage · Oedipus complex · Electra complex · Freud · moral development
- psychologypsychology, psychologist, therapist, psychiatrist, clinical psychology
- psychoanalysisFreud, id, ego, unconscious, Sigmund Freud
psychosexual stagesbehaviorism
Psychology studying observable conduct
cognitive psychology · behavioral conditioning · neuroscience · operant conditioning · evolutionary psychology