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    Sigmund Freud proposed that children progress through 5 psychosexual stages of development - oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. In each stage, children's pleasure focuses on a different part of the body. Freud also identified 3 parts of consciousness - the id, ego, and superego. The id represents innate cravings, the ego mediates between reality and the id, and the superego incorporates internalized beliefs and norms. While Freud's psychosexual theory is not considered scientifically accurate today, it was groundbreaking and inspired further work in child development and personality.

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    Sigmund Freud proposed that children progress through 5 psychosexual stages of development - oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. In each stage, children's pleasure focuses on a different part of the body. Freud also identified 3 parts of consciousness - the id, ego, and superego. The id represents innate cravings, the ego mediates between reality and the id, and the superego incorporates internalized beliefs and norms. While Freud's psychosexual theory is not considered scientifically accurate today, it was groundbreaking and inspired further work in child development and personality.

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    Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was a Viennese psychiatrist who believed that how parents
    dealt with their children's basic sexual and violent drives determined how their personalities
    evolved and whether or not they grew up to be well-adjusted people. Oral, Anal, Phallic,
    Latency, and Genital are the phases of sexual development that Sigmund Freud identified in
    children. Each stage, according to Freud, was centered on sexual activity and the pleasure
    derived from a specific part of the body. Children focus on the pleasures they get from sucking
    and biting with their mouths during the oral phase. This emphasis switches to the anus in the
    Anal phase, as they begin toilet training and strive to control their bowels. The focus shifts to
    genital stimulation and the sexual identification that comes with having or not having a penis in
    the Phallic stage. Children turn their interest and love toward their opposite sex parent during this
    phase, according to Freud, and grow to dislike the same sex parent. He termed this concept the
    Oedipus Complex because it closely resembled the events of an ancient Greek tragedy in which a
    king named Oedipus marries his mother and murders his father. After the Phallic/Oedipus stage,
    a period of Latency was considered to occur, during which sexual impulses and interest were
    momentarily absent. Finally, it was assumed that children would enter and remain in a last
    Genital stage during which adult sexual interests and behaviors would take precedence. The
    identification of the parts of consciousness was another aspect of Freud's theory. All babies,
    according to Freud, are initially ruled by unconscious, innate, and selfish cravings for instant
    fulfillment, which he dubbed the Id. As babies try and fail to satisfy all of their desires, they
    develop a more realistic understanding of what is realistic and feasible, which Freud referred to
    as the "Ego." Babies also learn about, internalize, and embody their parents' beliefs and
    regulations over time. The developing child's conscience, which battles with conceptions of good
    and evil and works with the Ego to restrain the immediate Id's gratification needs, is based on
    these internalized norms, which he named the "Super-Ego." Freud's psychosexual hypothesis is
    not thought to be very accurate by today's scientific standards. It is, however, still significant and
    relevant today because it was the first stage development theory to get widespread attention, and
    many other theorists took inspiration from it.

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