Stages of Development
Diamond Alford According to Freud, the experiences we have as young children shape our personalities. Emphasizing the way our parent interacts with us in our premature years if life. Dividing these early years in life into a period called psychosexual stages. Psychosexual stages are the five biologically established developmental stages of childhood during which personality characteristics are formed. Let’s take a look at this video. In the video, they discuss the libido, which focuses in a different zone at each phase. Which are called the oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital. Oral (Birth to 18 months) Dependency on caretakers for feeding Anal (18 months to 3 years) New demands for self-control (toilet training, etc.) Phallic (3 to 6 years) Self-worth as reflected by parental interest Latency (Elementary school) No Key Issues Genital (Puberty and beyond) Mature and sexual relationships If our experiences during any of these phases were traumatic we might develop citations