Sigmund Freud (18561939) (1856

the father of
psychoanalysis, was a

physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist and influential thinker of the early twentieth century. was born in Frieberg, Moravia in 1856, but when he was four years old his family moved to Vienna where he was to live and work until the last years of his life.

Stages of Development or Psychosexual Development

The Oral Stage The anal stage The Phallic Stage Latency Period The Genital Stage

Erogenous zones are the mouth ,the anus and the genital region.

Stages of Development or Psychosexual Development

The Oral Stage - begins at birth, lasts one and one-half years - The child, of course, preoccupies himself with nursing, with the pleasure of sucking and accepting things into the mouth.

 The anal stage

At one and one-half years, the child enters the anal stage. With the advent of toilet training comes the child's obsession with the erogenous zone of the anus and with the retention or expulsion of the feces. - Anal Expulsive Charactergenerally messy, disorganized, reckless, careless and defiant. - Anal Retentive Character neat, precise, orderly, careful and passiveaggressive.

 The Phallic Stage

is the setting for the greatest, most crucial sexual conflict in Freud's model of development. In this stage, the child's erogenous zone is the genital region. As the child becomes more interested in his genitals, and in the genitals of others, conflict arises. The conflict, labeled the Oedipus complex (The Electra complex in women), involves the child's unconscious desire to possess the opposite-sexed parent and to eliminate the same-sexed one.

 Latency Period The resolution of the phallic stage leads to the latency period, which is not a psychosexual stage of development, but a period in which the sexual drive lies dormant.

 The Genital Stage as the child's energy once again focuses on his genitals, interest turns to heterosexual relationships.

Structural Model (id, ego, superego)

Id - - The id is an important part of our personality because as newborns, it allows us to get our basic needs met - based on pleasure principle, the id wants whatever feels good at the time, with no consideration for the reality of the situation Ego - based on the reality principle. The ego understands that other people have needs and desires and that Superego is the moral part of us and develops due to the moral and ethical restraints placed on us by our caregivers.

 Topographical Model
 Unconscious -believed that most of what drives us is buried in.  conscious - Freud also believed that everything we are aware of is stored in.  preconscious or subconscious - the part of us that we can access if prompted, but is not in our active conscious. Its right below the surface, but still buried somewhat unless we search for it

Topographical Model