Psychodynamic Approach - Psychosexual Stages
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- Created on: 22-04-18 08:37
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- Psycho Dynamic Approach - Psychosexual Stages
- Freud claimed that child development occured in 5 stages
- Each stage is marked by a different conflict that the child must resolve in order to progress successfully to the next stage
- Any psychosexual conflict that is unresolved leads to fixation where the child becomes stuck and carries out certain behaviours and conflicts associated with that stage through adult life
- Each stage is marked by a different conflict that the child must resolve in order to progress successfully to the next stage
- ORAL
- ANAL
- PHALLIC
- 3-5 years, focus of pleasure is genital area, child experiences OC or EC.
- Phallic personality - narcissistic, reckless, homeless
- LATENCY
- Earlier conflicts a repressed, 6-12
- GENITAL
- Difficulty from heterosexual relationships
- Sexual desires become conscious alongside the onset of puberty
- Freud claimed that child development occured in 5 stages
- 0-1 years, focus of pleausre is the mouth, mothers breast is object of desire
- Consequence of unresolved conflict is oral fixation - smoking, biting, nails, sarcastic
- 1-3 years, focus of pleasure is the anus, child gains pleasure from withholding and expelling faeces
- Consequence of unresolved conflict is anal retentive - perfection, obsessive OR anal repulsive - thoughtless, messy.
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