Freud believed that unresolved conflicts during these stages could lead to personality issues in adulthood. Freud's stages of human development, referred to as the psychosexual stages of development, describe how the libido develops through childhood, guiding behavior. Freud's developmental theory of psychosexual development was one of the first attempts to align psychology with the scientific structure and methodology of medicine This unification was achieved by first defining the stages of normative human sexual development Freud categorized psychosexual maturation into 5 distinct phases, with each stage representing a focus of the libido or instincts on. The psychosexual development theory is one of freud’s most debated contributions to psychology
Discover what each stage means, plus its criticisms. Freud’s stages are called the stages of psychosexual development Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. Learn how these stages shape personality.
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