According to Freud, human development proceeds through various psychosexual stages.

In each, a particular area of the body becomes

an erogenous zone, the focus of libidinal energy during that particular period.
Sexuality was conceived as an instinctual force that
naturally seeks discharge. For most people, progress through the psychosexual
stages is largely unremarkable. Some individuals, however,
experience either excessive frustration or excessive indulgence, resulting in the
fixation of sexual energy on the concerns of a particular stage,
thus coloring the total personality. During the oral stage, for example, sexual
energy is focused on the mouth. Excessive gratification of oral
needs was believed to lead to the development of an oral character, the
psychodynamic equivalent of the contemporary dependent personality.