Personality Development
Personality Development
Personality Development
DEVELOPMENT
• Introduction
1.2 Fixation may be caused either by the over indulgence or the frustraction of child’s
oral needs.
A child whose oral needs are not satisfied with exhibit fixation in the later life in the form of
addictions ,such as: smoking ,gluttony or alcoholism , nail biting ,excessive use of sarcasm.
• 2 Anal Stage (second year of life)
• This stage focuses on pleasurable sensations experienced in the mucous
membranes of the rectum. The child starts to control some bodily functions
like gaining satisfaction from expelling and withdrawing faeces .
• He can please his parents by being “clean” or can thwart them by making
a mess . Significant “EVENT” in the child’s life in the parents efforts to impose
toilet training.
• Fixation at the anal stage may result to a personalitthy that is exceedingly
with cleanliness and orderliness
3 .PHALLIC STAGE
• In this stage, the libidinal energy centers on the genitals and
feeling become overtly sexual. Describing first the sequence of
the events for the male child,freud defined important issues
arising from the Oedipus Complex
The boys fantasies include wishes for sexual intimacy with his mother.He envies
his father intimacyrelationship with his mother and fears punishment in the form
of castraction for his forbidden wishes .The Oedipus complex is resolved when
the child indentifies with his father in order to appease him and to become like
him in as many ways as possible.
In the ELECTRA COMPLEX there is a girl identification with her mother the
former believing herself to be already castrated dince does not possess a
penis suffers a penis envy. This leadsher to seeka strong love attachment to her
father the possessor of a penis and finally to identify with her mother in order to
become like her mother according to freud as cited by birch.
4 LATENCY PERIOD
• This stage ,which is characterized by calmness,
following the turmoil of the phallic stage.during
this time the libido is submerged and does not
center upon any bodily area .it is a time of
ego department ,particularly in relation to
social and intellectual skills.
5.GENITAL STAGE
• 2 ENERGY SELF
• Relates to metabolism and the gross manifestations of energy (prana),e.g act
of breathing.The control pf prana is achieved by control an anger ,anxiety and
restlessness.
• 3 INTELLECTUAL SELF
• Pertains to discrimination power and knowledge or the cognitive domain.
• 4 MENTAL SELF
• Is related to stress and psychology ,selflessness and control ,concertration
and calmness and mind plays essential role.