Freud's Psychosexual Stages

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Freud proposed five childhood stages — oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital — in which conflict at any stage shapes adult personality.

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A person's need for control is attributed to conflict during toilet training in the anal stage.

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There is no empirical support for the stage sequence or for the adult traits attributed to it. It is taught as history.

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