Psychosexual stages

Instincts/drive underlie behaviours and energise the mind
1. Eros: erotic and self-preserving instincts
2. Thanatos: aggression and self-destruction
3. Human being energised by desire to gain and enhance bodily pleasure
Early childhood experiences determine adult personality and behaviour
1. 5 stages of child development
  1. Oral (1)
    1. 0-18 months
    2. Pleasure focused on mouth: sucking, biting, chewing
      1. Adult fixation: smoking, overeating
    3. Major development: weaning
  2. Anal (2)
    1. 18 months to 3 years
      1. Pleasure focused on bowel and bladder eliminations, coping with demands for control
        Adult fixation: Orderliness, messiness
    2. Major development: toilet training
  3. Phallic (3)
    1. 3-6 years
      1. Pleasure from genitals, coping with incestuous sexual feelings
      2. Adult: deviancy, sexual dysfunction
    2. Major development: resolving Oedipus/Electra complex
  4. Latency (4)
    1. 6-puberty
      1. Dormant sexual feelings
        No adult fixation signs
    2. Major development: developing defence mechanisms
  5. Genital
    1. Mature sexual interests
      1. If all stages completed successfully, person should be sexually mature and mentally healthy
      2. Major development: reaching full sexual maturity
    2. Puberty onwards
Oral, anal and phallic stages characterised by emotional and psychological conflict at an unconscious level (kept there by repression)

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