Welcome back folks. I hope you had a great time swallowing the words of Freud cause here I have more for you to chew.

According to Freud, personality development is largely centered on sexual themes, by sexual he meant anything pleasurable and that includes… you know what! The chief identifying character of each stage is the primary erogenous zone and each stage has an influence on the adult personality. He furthered that as children progress through each of the psychosexual stages, small amounts of libido(one of the two major categories of instincts) are used up resolving relevant crises during that stage. However, children, occasionally, encounter traumatic experience or an excessive amount of gratification during a particular stage, thus resulting to fixation. Translating it to English, it means an adult expresses characteristics reminiscent of the earlier stage at which the energy is fixated.

PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES:

ORAL STAGE, at this stage the mouth, lips, and tongue are the erogenous zone.
First 18 months of life. When the needs are not met or overly met at this stage a
child may either be oral incorporative or oral sadistic later on in life.
ANAL STAGE, let me put it bluntly and quick: expelling and defecating are the
major source of pleasure …. Oh… but I know of “someone”—way pass this
stage— who still find these activities a major source of delight…. The outcome
of this stage is either anal expulsive or anal retentive.
PHALLIC STAGE. Occurs when the child is approximately 3 to 6 years old.
Genitals become the most erogenous zone (kids don’t do this at home). This is the
time when children develops Oedipus complex and castration anxiety for boys
and Elektra complex and penis envy for girls. ….. yeah, Freud likes it that way.
Oh and guess who the object of these children’s desire is…….. their opposite sex
parent.
LATENCY STAGE. ah… rest at last. It is the time when the unresolved sexual
desires of the phallic stage are not attended by the ego and are repressed by the
superego. This is the onset of puberty.
GENITAL STAGE boys and girls become aware of their separate sexual
identities and begin to look for ways to fulfill their erotic and interpersonal needs.
Erogenous urges return and are focused in the adult genital regions. In short….
“Teenager syndrome”.