MODULE 4

FREUD’S
PSYCHOANALYTIC
THEORY
LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1.Explain Freud’s views about child and adolescent

development.

2.Draw implications of Freud’s theory to education.

 QUICK ACTIVITY: BUZZ GROUPS

Recall a recent incident in your life

when you had to make a decision. Narrate
the situation and indicate what the decision
was about, the factors that were involved
and how you arrived at your decision.
 ANALYSIS: BUZZ GROUPS
1. What factors influenced you in making your
decision?

2. Which of the following did you consider most in

making your decision?

3. What will make you feel satisfied, what is most

beneficial or practical or what you believed was the
most moral thing to do?
 ACTIVITY: COOPERATIVE READING
GROUPS

INSTRUCTION:
Read Freud’s stages of development and fill out
the learning sheets.
 FREUD’S STAGES OF PSYCHOSEXUAL
DEVELOPMENT
INTRODUCTION:
Freud is the most popular psychologist that studied the development of
personality, probably the most controversial.

His theory psychosexual development includes 5 stages and

accordingly, a person goes through the sequence and along the way they are
needs to be met.

Freud identified EROGENOUS ZONE for each stage, it called

“pleasure areas” and if needs are not met, FIXATION occurs.
 ORAL STAGE (birth to 18 months)
EROGENOUS ZONE: Mouth
PLEASURE AREAS: Sucking
FIXATION: If too much or too little satisfaction
Oral receptive - stronger tendency to smoke, drink alcohol, overeat
Oral aggression - tendency to bite nails or use curse words or even
gossips
RESULT:
These persons may become too dependent on others, easily fooled
and lack of leadership traits.
 ANAL STAGE (18 months to 3 years)
EROGENOUS ZONE: Anus

PLEASURE AREAS: Eliminating and retaining feces

FIXATION: Childs needs to work for the toilet training

RESULT:
Anal retentive – obsession with cleanliness, perfection and
control
Anal expulsive – person become messy and disorganized
 PHALLIC STAGE (ages 3 to 6)
EROGENOUS ZONE: Genitals
PLEASURE AREAS: Sexual differences
FIXATION:
Oedipus Complex – develop unconscious sexual
desire for their mother then see their father as rival
Electra Complex – develop unconscious sexual desire
for their father then see their mother as rival
RESULT:
It could result to sexual deviances (overindulging or
avoidance)or weak or confused sexual identity
 LATENCY STAGE (Age 6 to puberty)
EROGENOUS ZONE: Genitals

PLEASURE AREAS: Sexual differences

FIXATION: sexual urges were repressed

RESULT:
Children focuses on the acquisition of physical and
academic skills. Boys usually relate more with boys and girls
 GENITAL STAGE (puberty onwards)
EROGENOUS ZONE: Genitals

PLEASURE AREAS: Sexual differences

FIXATION: sexual urges awakened again

RESULT:
Adolescents focus their sexual urges towards the
opposite sex peers with the pleasure centered on the genitals.
SUMMARY
FREUD’S PERSONALITY
COMPONENTS
THE ID THE EGO THE SUPEREGO

1. “ THE PELASURE 1.“THE REALITY 1.“PERSON’S

PRINCIPLE” PRINCIPLE” MORAL ASPECT”
2. The immediate 2.Awareness that 2.Linked to
gratification or others also have conscience,
satisfaction needs to be met considering what is
right and wrong.
FREUD’S TOPOGRAPHICAL MODEL
(Conception of Human Psyche)
 THE CONSCIOUS THE PRECONSCIOUS OR THE UNCONSCIOUS
SUBCONSCIOUS

1. Small part of what makes 1.Huge part, can be reach if 1.Emotions, beliefs, feelings
up our personality prompted. and impulses deep within .

2. Conscious mind 2.Materials that can be easily

comprises a small part in recalled .
our brain.

3. The ideas, thoughts, and

feelings, at which we are
aware
 ACTIVITY: LEARNING SHEETS
1.) After learning, Freud’s psychosexual theory, what
is the implications (involved or connected to
something) of Freud’s theory to learner’s learning?

2. How important is the parent’s guidance during

these stages? What are the things they should do to
their children in order to avoid fixations? Cite an
example.