Psychology / Unit 10 Psych 1109 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Freud's Psychosexual Stages
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The idea
Freud proposed five childhood stages — oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital — in which conflict at any stage shapes adult personality.
In practice
A person's need for control is attributed to conflict during toilet training in the anal stage.
Where people slip
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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