Topic > Life and Contributions of Sigmund Freud - 1972

This theory spoke of five different elements; the oral phase, the anal phase, the phallic phase, the latency phase and the genital phase. Psychosexual development is a theory that Freud based exclusively on Sophocles' Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex and is better known as the Oedipus complex. The Oedipus Complex was written for children who obtain sexual gratification through their parents of the opposite sex. For example, a son's desire to want to have sexual intercourse with his mother which is the most common. This also leads to, creates animosity and hatred between the child's same-sex parents. Now the child looks at the same-sex parent as a rival. Just to clarify that the general theory is not just limited to the male relationship (son and father). On the other hand, since Freud believed that girls as much as boys will and can feel a sexual attraction to their fathers; this was later known as the Electra complex. According to Freud the oral stage is the first stage we go through, in it we have the curiosity to know what sorting things are and we would try to find an answer by bringing it to the mouth or lips which in turn helps the development of the brain. brain. The anal phase is the second phase; in this phase, according to Freud, the child's attention changes with respect to the process of elimination. Freud believed that the way parents potty train their children could influence their children's personalities, either positively or negatively. He described these personalities as anal retentive personality and anal expulsive personality. Freud stated that children with anal retentive personality problems could be very obsessive about cleanliness, tidy and miserly; while children with anal expulsive personality could be very messy, destructive and disorganized. Our third stage of development, Freud called the phallic stage, in this particular stage the child