His work on sexuality and perversions led to the wider theory of sexuality whereby he differentiated the sexual aim (the desire for pleasure) and the object (the person or thing used to fulfil the desire). He asserted that sexuality is more than just genital copulation between adults and this work is the background to his theory on infantile sexuality. He emphasised particular erogenous zones as being of primary importance at different stages of infancy. Each stage impacts in three significant ways: physical focus where the child’s energy may be concentrated and their gratification obtained; psychologically through demands being made of the child by the outside world as he or she develops – either doing too much or not enough of what is ideal;
This is the start development of ego and super ego. This is around the time the child starts school and is the awakening sexual energy. The final stage is Genital Stage which starts from puberty to adult hood. During this final stage the child is no longer a child and develops a strong sexual interest in the opposite sex. This last stage is very different form the other stages Freud explains.
This essay will also look at the role of women and homosexuality and discuss whether Freud’s views where based on a cultural prejudice when he devised the psychosexual theory. Freud’s theory of psychosexual development. Freud’s theory of psychosexual development was devised in the late 19th century and was tested and researched on middle class, Viennese women. Freud believed that in order to understand a client’s presenting issue then we would need to look into their childhood to establish why the client was suffering neuroses. Freud believed that it was possible to link the psychosexual stages of development with adult neuroses.
According to Sigmund Freud, as children grow up pleasure and sexual impulses shifts from the mouth to the anus and gradually shifts to the genitals. Freud later came to the conclusion that human passes through five stages of psychosexual development. Moreover, Erik Erikson amended Sigmund Freud’s theory because he assumed Freud misjudged some areas of human development. Erikson stated that human beings develop in psychosocial stages. The most important mode of motivation for human behavior is sexual in nature, According to Freud’s theory, on the other hand Erikson’s theory depicts that human motivation is influenced by human’s interaction with other people and social experiences.
Laura Hedrick Instructor Adair Rounthwaite Social and Political Analysis of Porn Response Paper #1 The History of Sexuality–Volume 1: An Introduction, By Michel Foucault This is an introduction to the repressive nature on the topic of sex and how it came to be. Foucault also digs deeper into the relations of power and repressive conducts. In this essay I will discuss his observations in the discourses when addressing sex in discussion, how this relates to the maturing of a young adult, and why this discussion is so essential to the development of a child. Foucault starts in Volume One by introducing us to the “repressive hypothesis”. Here we can relate the general, average child’s upbringing in the beginning of the nineteenth century, “sexuality was carefully confined: it moved into the home” (3), to that of the seventeenth century, where “codes regulating the coarse, the obscene, and the indecent were quite lax” (3).
According to Freud, three aspects of early childhood development are the developing of the ego, id and superego in resolving the conflicts during early childhood stages: the oral stage, anal stage and phallic stages of development including the Oedipus complex (Quigley, Psychoanalysis). This is what is known as the Psychoanalytic theory of human development. Generally, the personality develops through the structures of the mind and into three parts with separate motivations; ID, the emotional and irrational part of the brain; the Ego the mostly rational part of the brain; and the Superego the part of the brain that brings morality to the table. Freud believed that a psychic energy was required for movement through the stages (Neil, Major Themes) Freud claimed that all human beings are born with certain instincts, i.e. with a natural tendency to satisfy their biologically determined needs for food, shelter and warmth that are both practical and a source of pleasure which Freud refers to as "sexual".
Some states are now viewing domestic violence as a public health concern, in regards to domestic violence being a social disease. I am studying psychology at Ashford University and I have already taken Early Childhood Development. I can see how this could be viewed as a social disease. We learn from our parents, good and bad. You could view children becoming abusers themselves via Freud's ego and super ego theory, which it could be argued that in early development a child sees the way to get what they want and or need via coersion, violence, complaining, yelling, or how ever the child perceives the parent obtaining that which they want.
Every child must pass through the so-called psycho-sexual stages; how a child experiences these stages plays a crucial role in the development of his/her personality. A child who becomes fixated at the oral stage may have an oral receptive personality and be very trusting and dependent on others, or he may develop an oral aggressive personality and become aggressive and dominating as an adult. The phallic personality type may be over-confident, vain and impulsive while the genital personality type become well-adjusted, mature, able to love and be loved. Therefore, the psychodynamic approach suggests that mental illness occurs as a result of psychological problems, not physical problems as suggested by the biological approach. A strength of the psychodynamic approach is that it reminds us that experiences in childhood can affect us throughout our lives without us being aware that it is happening.
Psychoanalysis is in relation to Freud’s explanation of personality, moral development and psychosexual stages of development. The personality is developed through these psychosexual stages through the resolution of a conflict. Gender identity is developed at the phallic stage, which is 3 to 7 years. The conflict here is the sexual attraction, that the child is faced with, to the opposite sex parent. Resolving this conflict leads to gender identity.
Freud's Theory of Psychosexual Development Freud proposed a theory of personality development that centered on the effects of the sexual pleasure drive on a persons behaviour or personality traits later on in life. At particular points in the developmental process, he claimed that the id's pleasure sweeking tendancies are focused on specific pleasure sensitive areas of the body termed erogenous zones . (Passer et al,2009). Freud described five stages of psychosexual development, which we all pass through related to the body part in question : Oral (0-2 years) Anal (2-3 years) Phallic (3-6 years) Latent (6-11 years) Genital (11+) If the stages are completed successfully, the result is a healthy personality. If certain issues are not resolved at the appropriate stage, fixation and/or regression can occur.