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    Sigmund Freud believed that personality develops through a series of psychosexual stages in childhood, where pleasure zones shift from the mouth, anus, genitals and other areas. During each stage, conflicts can help or hinder development depending on how they are resolved. If issues are not resolved at the proper stage, fixations can occur where the individual remains focused on an earlier stage. Personality is largely established by age five according to psychoanalytic theory.

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    Sigmund Freud believed that personality develops through a series of psychosexual stages in childhood, where pleasure zones shift from the mouth, anus, genitals and other areas. During each stage, conflicts can help or hinder development depending on how they are resolved. If issues are not resolved at the proper stage, fixations can occur where the individual remains focused on an earlier stage. Personality is largely established by age five according to psychoanalytic theory.

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    Sigmund Freud believed that personality develops through a series of psychosexual stages in childhood, where pleasure zones shift from the mouth, anus, genitals and other areas. During each stage, conflicts can help or hinder development depending on how they are resolved. If issues are not resolved at the proper stage, fixations can occur where the individual remains focused on an earlier stage. Personality is largely established by age five according to psychoanalytic theory.

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    3.

    SIGMUND FREUD'S PHYCHOSEXUAL


    DEVELOPMENT

     According to the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud,


    children go through a series of psychosexual stages that lead
    to the development of the adult personality. His theory
    described how personality developed over the course of
    childhood. While the theory is well-known in psychology, it
    has always been quite controversial, both during Freud's time
    and in modern psychology.

     One important thing to note is that contemporary


    psychoanalytic theories of personality development have
    incorporated and emphasized ideas about internalized
    relationships and interactions and the complex ways in which
    we maintain our sense of self into the models that began with
    Freud.

    An Overview of the Psychosexual Stages:

     Freud believed that personality developed through a series of


    childhood stages in which the pleasure-seeking energies of the
    id become focused on certain erogenous areas. An erogenous
    zone is characterized as an area of the body that is particularly
    sensitive to stimulation. During the five psychosexual stages,
    which are the oral, anal, phallic, latent and genital stages, the
    erogenous zone associated with each stage serves as a source
    of pleasure.

     Psychoanalytic theory suggested that personality is mostly


    established by the age of five. Early experiences play a large
    role in personality development and continue to influence
    behaviour later in life.
     Each stage of development is marked by conflicts that can
    help build growth or stifle development, depending upon how
    they are resolved. If these psychosexual stages are completed
    successfully, a healthy personality is the result.
     If certain issues are not resolved at the appropriate stage,
    fixations can occur. A fixation is a persistent focus on an
    earlier psychosexual stage. Until this conflict is resolved, the
    individual will remain "stuck" in this stage.
     A person who is fixated at the oral stage, for example, may be

    over-dependent on others and may seek oral stimulation


    through smoking, drinking, or eating.

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