HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND VICTIMOLOGY

FREUD’S
THEORY OF
PSYCHOSEXUAL
DEVELOPMENT
GROUP 1
 TODAY'S TOPICS
WHAT WE'LL DISCUSS

Psychosexual Development Theory and

Fixation
Stages of Psychosexual Development
Theory
HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND VICTIMOLOGY

Early experiences play a large role

in personality development.
Sigmund Freud
PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY
OF SIGMUND FREUD

According to Freud, children’s pleasure-seeking

urges are focused on a different area of the body,
called an erogenous zone, at each of the five stages
of development called the psychosexual
development stages.
 is when one's desire is
tied to an object of
desire connected to an
FIXATION earlier phase in one's
psychosexual
development.
PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES Oral Stage

Phallic Stage

Anal Stage

Latency Stage

Genital Stage
Oral Stage

0-18 MONTHS

PLEASURE
CENTER IN THE
MOUTH
Oral Fixation
NAIL-BITING, SMOKING, GUM-CHEWING, AND EXCESSIVE
DRINKING

ORAL FIXATION MIGHT ALSO OCCUR IF THE INFANT IS:

•NEGLECTED AND UNDERFED (LACK OF ORAL STIMULATION)

•OVERPROTECTED AND OVERFED (EXCESS ORAL STIMULATION)
 18-36 MONTHS

ANAL STAGE
FOCUSES ON BOWEL AND
BLADDER ELIMINATION.

THE CHILD'S FOCUS OF

PLEASURE IN THIS STAGE
IS THE ANUS.
PHALLIC STAGE

3- 6 YEARS
the infant’s libido center is focused on the genitals
LATENCY STAGE

6 to Puberty

CRIM3
Dormant sexual
feelings
 GENITAL STAGE
OCCURS
PUBERTY
ONWARDS

MATURATION
INTEREST
Sign of fixation in this stage include:

Anxious
Guilt Feeling Poor feelings
about of sexual regarding
sexuality inadequacy relationships the opposite
sex
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https://www.britannica.com/science/anal-stage

https://www.simplypsychology.org/psychosexual.html#gen

https://www.healthline.com/health/oral-fixation#how-it-
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