Human Growth and Development / Unit 1 HGD 0023 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Freud's Psychosexual Stages
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The idea
Sigmund Freud's psychosexual theory holds that early childhood experiences shape personality as children pass through a sequence of stages.
In practice
The five stages in order: oral, anal, Oedipal, latency and genital.
Where people slip
Frustration or overindulgence at a stage was said to cause fixation there, producing a dependent, controlling or competitive personality style.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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