Created @May 9, 2022 2:33 PM
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Main concepts
1. Behaviour is governed by unconscious forces
2. Unconscious forces are shaped by childhood experiences
3. Childhood presents a series of psychosexual conflicts that inlfluence adult life and
personality
5 Psyxhosexual stages
each marked by erogenous zone(life instinct, survival, pleasure)
each stage rewuires the resoltuion of a task
Sexual urges guide development, general way to recieve pleausure
failure to move from one stage to another → fixation
1. Oral
Age of breastfeeding
E. zone: Mouth
Task: Feeding/Weaning
Function: Survival - feeding, Weaning - independane
Freud’s Psychosexual Theory 1