Q. Describe Freud’s psychosexual stages of personality development.
Ans: Freud proposed five stages of personality development(also called psychosexual stages of development)
- Oral- Seen in a new born where the mouth is the primary pleasure seeking centre.
- Anal- anal area of the body becomes the focus of certain pleasurable feelings.
- Phallic- focus on genitals. Children realise the difference between males and
females. Oedipus and Electra complex. - Latency-child grows physically and energy is channelized into various activities.
- Genital – maturity attained in psychosexual development.
(Explanation of each stage) - Concepts of fixation and regression to be explained