Freud split his theory of Psychosexual Development into five stages.They
are: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital, each occurring sequentially according to age.
The first stage occurs from birth to about fifteen months. A child's primary source of pleasure is derived from things going in or coming out of the its mouth.The mothers breast, for instance, is the child's source of food and is also a source for oral stimulation. If a child is weaned too early or too late Freud said an oral fixation may occur later in life.
The second stage happens from around fifteen months to three years of
age. During this stage attention is directed towards the lower end of th
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