Psychosexual

Development
by Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
- was an Austrian neurologist who is perhaps most
known as the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud
developed a set of therapeutic techniques centered
on talk therapy that involved the use of strategies
such as transference, free association, and dream
interpretation.
The Human Psyche

- Composed of the mind, soul or spirit.

What is Psychosexual
Development?
• Is a time when an individual seeks pleasure
from various areas of the body associated with
sexual feelings.
STAGES:

ORAL ANAL PHALLIC LATENCY GENITAL

Birth to 1 1 to 3 3 to 5 5 to puberty Puberty

ORAL
• A child derives pleasure from oral activities.
• Sucking and chewing
ANAL
• Ability to control bowel movement is the
source of pleasure.
• Potty training
PHALLIC
• Rivals parent affection
• Oedipus complex
• Electra complex
LATENCY
• Sexual urges are usually repressed.
• Interacts with the same sex peers.
GENITALS
• Sexual urges reawakened towards opposite
sex.
References
• https://www.psychologynoteshq.com/freud-psy
chosexual-development/
• https://study.com/academy/answer/what-can-w
e-conclude-from-freud-s-psychosexual-stages-
of-development.html
• https://www.verywellmind.com/sigmund-freud-
biography-1856-1939-2795544#:~:text=Sigmun
d%20Freud%20was%20an%20Austrian,free%20
association%2C%20and%20dream%20interpret
ation
.
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