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Sigmund Freud Theory Of Development. By david williams september 26 2018. Freud s theory of psychosexual development is represented amongst five stages. His theory described how personality developed over the course of childhood. According to the famous psychoanalyst sigmund freud children go through a series of psychosexual stages that lead to the development of the adult personality.
Oral anal phallic latent and genital. According to freud each stage occurs within a specific time frame of one s life. The id ego and superego. There are a number of stages of childhood during which the child seeks pleasure from a different object. What makes these stages controversial is that each stage is according to freud associated with sexual pleasure. Sigmund freud 1856 1939 was a viennese doctor who came to believe that the way parents dealt with children s basic sexual and aggressive desires would determine how their personalities developed and whether or not they would end up well adjusted as adults freud described children as going through multiple stages of sexual development which he labeled oral anal phallic latency and genital.
Each one is characterized by a specific kind of conflict and an erogenous zone.
His theory described how personality developed over the course of childhood. What makes these stages controversial is that each stage is according to freud associated with sexual pleasure. According to freud each stage occurs within a specific time frame of one s life. It was this that led to the most controversial part of freud s work his theory of psychosexual development and the oedipus complex. Sigmund freud divided personality development into five stages. Sigmund freud 1856 1939 was a viennese doctor who came to believe that the way parents dealt with children s basic sexual and aggressive desires would determine how their personalities developed and whether or not they would end up well adjusted as adults freud described children as going through multiple stages of sexual development which he labeled oral anal phallic.