PSYCHOSEXUAL

DEVELOPMENT
Sigmund Freud
 Stages of Psychosexual Development
STAGE AGE CHARACTERISTICS

Oral Stage Birth The mouth is vital

to 1 for eating, and the
year infant derives
pleasure from oral
stimulation
through gratifying
activities such as
tasting and
sucking.
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CS
Anal Stage 1 to 3 Toilet training
years is a primary
issue with
children and
parents.
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Phallic 3 to 6 Boys experience an

Stage years Oedipal Complex
and girls
experience an
Electra Complex or
an attraction to the
opposite sex
parent.
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Latent 6 to 11 Children develop

Stage years social skills,
values and
relationships
with peers and
adults outside of
the family.
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Genital 11 to 18 People develop

Stage years a strong interest
in the opposite.
DEFENSE
MECHANISM
-represents an unconscious
mediation by the ego of id impulses
which are in conflict with the wishes
and needs of the ego and/or
superego.
Rationalization finding
reasonable explanations
for unreasonable or
unacceptable behavior to
make them sound logical
or acceptable.
Denial done when a
person refused to accept
reality or fact
Repression unconscious
blocking of unacceptable
thoughts, feeling and
impulses.
Projection attributing ones
own undesired thoughts,
feelings and impulses to
another person who does not
have those thoughts.
Reaction formation
denial and reversal of
ones feelings.
Sublimation channeling of unacceptable impulses,
thoughts, and emotions into more acceptable ones.
Displacement channeling of energy away from one
person or object to an alternative.
PSYCHOSOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT
Proponent: Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson
 STAGE BASIC IMPORTANT OUTCOME
CONFLICT EVENTS

INFANCY (birth to Trust vs. Feeding Children develop a

18 months) Mistrust sense of trust when
caregivers provide
reliability, care and
affection.
EARLY Autonomy vs. Toilet Training Children need to develop
CHILDHOOD (2 Shame and a sense of personal
to 3 years) Doubt control over physical
skills and a sense of
independence.
PRESCHOOL (3 Initiative vs. Exploration Children need to begin
to 5 years) Guilt asserting control and
power over the
environment
SCHOOL AGE (6 Industry vs. School Children need to cope
to 11 years) Inferiority with new social and
academic demands.
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CONFLICT EVENTS

ADOLESCENCE Identity vs. Role Social Teens need to develop a

(12 to 18 years) Confusion Relationships sense of self and
personal identity.

YOUNG Intimacy vs. Relationships Young adults need to

ADULTHOOD (19 Isolation form intimate, loving
to 40 years) relationships with other
people.
MIDDLE Generativity vs. Work and Adult need to create or
ADULTHOOD (40 Stagnation Parenthood nurture things that will
to 65 years) outlast them.

MATURITY (65 to Ego Integrity vs. Reflection on Older adults need to look
death) Despair Life back on life and feel a
sense of fulfillment